Mysticeti
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals.
Proper noun[edit]
Mysticeti
- A taxonomic suborder within the order Cetacea – the baleen whales.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (suborder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Cetacea - order
Hyponyms[edit]
- (suborder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales), Neobalaenidae (pygmy right whales) - family
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 Encyclopedia of Life
- Mysticeti at National Center for Biotechnology Information