Balaenoptera
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180523 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Balaenoptera musculus 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:137013")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:137013'").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 4 taxa · Balaenoptera musculus most observed
- sp Balaenoptera musculus Blue Whale162
- sp Balaenoptera physalus Fin Whale122
- sp Balaenoptera acutorostrata Minke Whale32
- sp Balaenoptera borealis Sei Whale8
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Balaenopteridae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Agaphelus acutorostrata · source
- Photo · Zejulio · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Balaenoptera” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354793873
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 ↗