Mysticeti
baleen whales
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2026-08-05: itis_id 552298 via WoRMS external link
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 598 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 6 taxa under it.R
- 598
- observations
- 598
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 6
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Balaenopteridae 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:148724")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148724'").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 · Balaenopteridae most observed
- F Balaenopteridae rorquals497
- F Eschrichtiidae101
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Cetacea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Jonathan Pople · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cetotherium riabinini · source
- Photo · Blake Matheson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Baleen whale” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369611092
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 ↗