Russell A. Mittermeier;Don E. Wilson
Eschrichtiidae
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Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (Miocene), Glaucabalaena and Eschrichtioides (Pliocene) from Italy, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. Some phylogenetic studies have found this family to be invalid, with its members nesting inside of the clade Balaenopteridae. The names of the extant genus and the family honours Danish zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
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Vinony's link graph records 48 inbound references to Eschrichtiidae, and connects out to Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae and Atlantic white-sided dolphin.
It is catalogued under topics including Baleen whales, Eschrichtiidae and Extant Miocene first appearances.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyEschrichtiidae
Pływaczowate (Eschrichtiidae) – rodzina ssaków z rzędu waleni charakteryzujących się brakiem płetwy grzbietowej oraz nielicznymi i krótkimi płatami fiszbinu.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Eschrichtiidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States
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- gråhvalfamilien
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- Eschrichtius
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Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (Miocene), Glaucabalaena and Eschrichtioides (Pliocene) from Italy, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. Some phylogenetic studies have found this family to be invalid, with its members nesting inside of the clade Balaenopteridae. The names of the extant genus and the family honours Danish zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
==Taxonomy== In his morphological analysis, found that eschrichtiids and Cetotheriidae (Cetotherium, Mixocetus and Metopocetus) form a monophyletic sister group of Balaenopteridae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eschrichtiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.