Balaenoptera

Balaenoptera adalah genus terbesar paus Rorqual, terdiri dari delapan spesies, termasuk spesies yang baru ditemukan, Balaenoptera omurai tahun 2003. Satu-satunya paus rorqual yang kini tidak diklasifikasikan sebagai anggota genus Balaenoptera adalah Paus Bungkuk, Megaptera novaeangliae.

 Daftar Spesies 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata – Paus tombak
Balaenoptera bonaerensis – Paus minke antartika
Balaenoptera bertae (punah)Boessenecker, Robert W. "A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans." Geodiversitas 35.4 (2012): 815-940.
Balaenoptera borealis – Paus sei
Balaenoptera cephalus (punah)R. E. Weems and L. E. Edwards. 2007. The age and provenance of "Eschrichtius" cephalus Cope (Mammalia: Cetacea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):752-756Balaenoptera cephalus at Fossilworks.org
Balaenoptera colcloughi (punah)Martin. (2014). From Finbacks to Humpbacks: Investigation of the Evolutionary History of Balaenopteridae .
Balaenoptera cortesii (punah)
Balaenoptera davidsonii (punah)Balaenoptera davidsonii at Fossilworks.orgT. Demere. 1986. The fossil whale, Balaenoptera davidsonii (Cope 1872), with a review of other Neogene species of Balaenoptera (Cetacea: Mysticeti). Marine Mammal Science 2(4):277-298
Balaenoptera edeni – Paus bryde
Balaenoptera musculus – Paus biru
Balaenoptera omurai – Paus omura
Balaenoptera physalus – Paus sirip
Balaenoptera portisii (punah)
Balaenoptera ricei – Paus Rice
Balaenoptera ryani (punah)
Balaenoptera siberi (punah)M. Bosselaers and K. Post. 2010. A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. Geodiversitas 32(2):331-363
Balaenoptera sursiplana (punah)E. D. Cope. 1895. Fourth contribution to the marine fauna of the Miocene period of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 34:135-155
Balaenoptera taiwanica (punah)Balaenoptera taiwanica at Fossilworks.orgT. Huang. 1966. A new species of a whale tympanic bone from Taiwan, China. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan 61:183-187

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