Balaenoptera
finback whales
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Balaenoptera is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family ; the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforementioned species being phylogenetically nested within it.W CalCOFI holds 324 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 4 taxa under it.R
- 324
- observations
- 324
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 4
- species under it
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 4 taxa
- sp Balaenoptera musculus Blue Whale162
- sp Balaenoptera physalus Fin Whale122
- sp Balaenoptera acutorostrata Minke Whale32
- sp Balaenoptera borealis Sei Whale8
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137013")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:137013'").df()