Cetotheriidae
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Cetotheriidae
Subfamilia (3): †Cetotheriinae – †Herpetocetinae – Neobalaeninae
Overview of genera (25): Caperea –
†Brandtocetus –
†Cephalotropis –
†Cetotherium –
†Ciuciulea –
†Cophocetus –
†Eucetotherium –
†Herentalia –
†Herpetocetus –
†Heterocetus –
†Hibacetus –
†Imerocetus –
†Joumocetus –
†Kurdalagonus –
†Metopocetus –
†Miocaperea –
†Mithridatocetus –
†Nannocetus –
†Palaeobalaena –
†Piscobalaena –
†Titanocetus –
†Tiucetus –
†Tranatocetus –
†Vampalus –
†Zygiocetus
Name
[edit]Cetotheriidae Brandt, 1872
Synonymy
[edit]- Neobalaenidae Miller, 1923
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Brandt, J.F. von 1872. Über eine neue Classification der Bartenwale (Balaenoidea) mit Berücksichtigung der untergegangenen Gattungen derselben. Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 113–130. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Pledge, N.S. 2010. The Telford "Cetothere" (Cetacea: Mysticeti: Cetotheridae).] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 134(2): 158–163. Online.[dead link]
- Fordyce, R.E. & Marx, F.G. 2013. The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata: the last of the cetotheres. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1753): 1–6. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2645 PMID: 23256199
Links
[edit]- Cetotheriidae – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
Vernacular names
[edit]日本語: ケトテリウム科