NEOBALAENIDAE, Gray, 1873

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Neobalaenidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 214-220 : 214

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6603968
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6603960
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scientific name	NEOBALAENIDAE
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Family NEOBALAENIDAE View in CoL

(PYGMY RIGHT WHALE)

• Smallest baleen whale with no throat grooves, long and narrow cream-to-white baleen having very fine bristles and dark outer margins, arched jaw line, and posterior ribs very broad and flat; all seven cervical vertebrae fused.

• 590-650 cm. View Figure

• Southern Hemisphere seas. View Figure

• Pelagic and coastal waters, temperate to subantarctic.

• 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.