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Definition of Balaenidae
1. Noun. Right whales.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Mysticeti, Suborder Mysticeti
Member holonyms: Right Whale, Balaena, Genus Balaena
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balaenidae
Literary usage of Balaenidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"... the Balaenidae and BALAENOPTERIDAE, founded mostly on external characters,
but Flower and Lydekker consider that intermediate forms have rendered the ..."
2. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"... and the last members are the right whales (Balaenidae). This is evinced by
the fact that the whalebone or baleen plates are developed only after the ..."
3. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt (1875)
"... and the last members are the right whales (Balaenidae). This is evinced by
the fact that the whalebone or baleen plates are developed only after the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"Bullae of the periotic bones of small Balaenidae are not uncommon in the same
beds, and I suspect are mostly to be referred to this and the ..."
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