Mysticeti
Translingual
editEtymology
editOriginally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals.
Proper noun
editMysticeti
- A taxonomic parvorder within the infraorder Cetacea – the baleen whales.
Hypernyms
edit- (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
edit- (parvorder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales) - families
References
edit- 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