Mysticeti

Translingual

kinds of baleen whales (Mysticeti)

Etymology

Originally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals.

Proper noun

Mysticeti

A taxonomic suborder within the order Cetacea – the baleen whales.

Hypernyms

(suborder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Cetacea - order

Hyponyms

(suborder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales), Neobalaenidae (pygmy right whales) - family

References

Mysticeti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mysticeti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Mysticeti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Mysticeti at World Register of Marine Species
Mysticeti in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
Mysticeti at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Mysticeti at the Tree of Life Web Project
Mysticeti at Encyclopedia of Life
Mysticeti at National Center for Biotechnology Information

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