Mysticeti
Translingual
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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), Lua error in Module:parameters at line 806: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (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[1] at Bucknell.
- Mysticeti at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Mysticeti at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Mysticeti at National Center for Biotechnology Information