Mysticeti
baleen 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).
Baleen whales, also known as whalebone whales, are marine mammals of the parvorder Mysticeti in the infraorder Cetacea, which use baleen plates in their mouths to sieve plankton from the water. Mysticeti comprises the families Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae and Cetotheriidae.W CalCOFI holds 594 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 6 taxa under it.R
- 594
- observations
- 594
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 6
- 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 · 2 taxa
- F Balaenopteridae rorquals493
- F Eschrichtiidae101
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:148724")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148724'").df()