Balaenopteridae
rorquals
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180522 via WoRMS external link
Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.W CalCOFI holds 497 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 497
- observations
- 497
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 5
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Balaenoptera most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136979")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:136979'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Balaenoptera most observed
- G Balaenoptera finback whales324
- G Megaptera173
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Mysticeti
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Agaphelus bonaerensis · source
- Photo · Etienne Boucher · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Rorqual” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366559132
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗