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Mysticeti
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prop. n.1.A suborder including baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; and humpbacks.
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Noun1.Mysticeti - baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks
suborder Mysticeti
animal order - the order of animals
Cetacea, order Cetacea - an order of Eutheria
baleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Balaenidae, family Balaenidae - right whales
Balaenopteridae, family Balaenopteridae - rorquals; blue whales
Eschrichtiidae, family Eschrichtiidae - comprising only the grey whales
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A nonparametric Mann Whitney-U test was used to determine if the rates of prevalence differed between Mysticetes and Odontocetes and a nonparametric Kruskal-Wallace test was used to determine if the prevalence rates differed significantly among species.
Prevalence of the commensal barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis on ... by Kane, Emily A.; Olson, Paula A.; Gerrodette, Tim; Fiedler, Paul C. / Fishery Bulletin
Among marine mammals, odontocetes (toothed whales), including beluga, may be at the greatest risk of contaminant effects because these animals are top predators that accumulate contaminants to a higher degree than do mysticetes (baleen whales) (O'Shea and Brownell 1994).
Systemic effects of arctic pollutants in beluga whales indicated by ... by Stegeman, John J. / Environmental Health Perspectives
Paleontologists have long thought that Mysticetes and Odontocetes represent separate evolutionary lines that split from a group of ancestral toothed whales some 40 million years ago.
Whale of a change for cetacean history by Science News
 
 
 
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