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Family Balaenopteridae. Hybrids between blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) have been recorded. At least one hybrids between a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) was attributed to marine biologist Michael Poole. [13] Family Delphinidae
Balaenoptera (from Latin balaena ' whale ' and Ancient Greek πτερά (pterá) ' fin ') is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. [2] Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family (the humpback whale and gray whale); the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforementioned species being phylogenetically nested within it.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
Similarly, a whale caught by whalers off the coast of Iceland in 2018 was found to be a hybrid descended from a female blue whale and a male fin whale. [29] A 2024 genome analysis of North Atlantic blue whales found that approximately 3.5% of their genome was derived from hybridization with fin whales.
The earliest description of a possible hybrid between a blue whale and a fin whale was a 20 m (66 ft) anomalous female whale with the features of both the blue and the fin whales taken in the North Pacific. [17] A whale captured off northwestern Spain in 1984, was found to have been the product of a blue whale mother and a fin whale father. [18]
Sei whales are rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), baleen whales that include the humpback whale, the blue whale, Bryde's whale, the fin whale, and the minke whale. Rorquals take their name from the Norwegian word røyrkval , meaning "furrow whale", [ 16 ] because family members have a series of longitudinal pleats or grooves on the anterior ...
Rorquals (/ ˈ r ɔːr k w əl z /) are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale, which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke ...
Bryde's whale (/ ˈ b r ʊ d ə z / BRUU-dəz), [3] [4] or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four. The "complex" means the number and classification remains unclear because of a lack of definitive information and research.