A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Balaenopteridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Common Minke WhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sei WhaleBalaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bryde's whaleBalaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879 | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue WhaleBalaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Omura's WhaleBalaenoptera omurai Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003 | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fin WhaleBalaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rice's whaleBalaenoptera ricei Rosel, Wilcox, Yamada & Mullin, 2021 | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) | BalaenopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.