Mysticeti

Translingual

Kinds of baleen whales (Mysticeti)

Etymology

Originally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals.

Proper noun

Mysticeti

1. A taxonomic parvorder within the order Artiodactyla – baleen whales.

Hypernyms

• (parvorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Cetacea – infraorder

Hyponyms

• (parvorder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales) – families

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