After McKenna & Bell, 1997, Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003 and Deméré, McGowen, Berta & Gatesy, 2008
<==o Balaenopteridae Lacépède, 1804 [non Gray, 1864] (rorquals; uurteisvalaat) |?- †Eobalaenoptera harrisonii Dooley, Fraser C. & Luo, 2004 `--+-- †Parabalaenoptera baulinensis Zeigler et al., 1997 |?-o †Plesiocetus Van Beneden 1859 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. brialmonti Van Beneden 1880 | |-- †P. burtinii Van Beneden 1859 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. cuvieri (Desmoulins 1822) [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. dubius (Brandt, 1873); Van Beneden, 1880 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. dyticus Cabrera, 1926 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. garopii Van Beneden, 1859 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. gervaisii Van Beneden & Gervais, 1868 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. hupschii Van Beneden, 1859 [taxonomic history] | |-- †P. notopelagicus Cabrera, 1926 | |-- †P. robustus Trouessart, 1898 [taxonomic history] | `-- †P. vandellii(Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880) [taxonomic history] |?-o †Idiocetus Capellini, 1876 | |-- †I. guicciardinii Capellini, 1876 | |-- †I. laxatus (Van Beneden, 1880) [Mesocetus laxatus Van Beneden, 1880; Idiocetus laxatus Van Beneden, 1886; Idiocetus laxatus Trouessart, 1898] | |-- †I. longifrons Van Beneden, 1880 | `-- †I. tsugarensis Matsumoto, 1926 |?- †Megapteropsis robusta Van Beneden, 1872 [Megapteropsis robusta Van Beneden, 1872; Megaptera affinis Van Beneden, 1882, Megaptera affinis Van Beneden, 1882; Megaptera robusta Trouessart, 1898; Megapteropsis robusta Demere et al., 2005] |?- †Palaeocetus sedgwickii Seeley, 1865 [nomen dubium] |?-o †Notiocetus Ameghino 1891 | |-- †N. platensis Ameghino 1891 | `-- †N. romerianus Ameghino 1891 (type) `==o Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 [taxonomic history] (rorquals; sillivalaat) |?- †B. astrolabae Pucheran, 1853 |?- †B. borealina Van Beneden 1880 |?- †B. capensis Smith, 1835 |?- †B. cephalus (Cope, 1867) |?- †B. cortesii (Fischer, 1829) |?- †B. cuvierii |?- †B. davidsonii (Cope, 1872) [taxonomic history] |?- †B. definita |?- †B. fasciata Gray, 1846 |?- †B. floridana Kellogg, 1944 |?- †B. leucopteron Lesson 1842 |?- †B. minutis (Van Beneden, 1880) |?- †B. patachonica Burmeister, 1865 |?- †B. rostratella Van Beneden, 1880 |?- †B. ryani Hanna & McLellan, 1924 |?- †B. sibbaldina Van Beneden, 1880 |?- †B. siberi Pilleri, 1989 |?- †B. similis (Van Beneden 1872) [†Burtinopsis similis Van Beneden, 1872] |?- †B. sursiplana Cope, 1895 |?- †B. syncondylus Muller, 1863 |?- †B. taiwanica Huang, 1966 |--o B. acutorostrata -group (minke whales; lahtivalaat) | |-- B. acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 (northern minke whale; pohjanlahtivalas) | `-- B. bonaerensis (southern minke whale; etelänlahtivalas) `--+--+--o B. musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) [taxonomic history] (blue whale; sinivalas) | | |-- B. m. musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (blue whale; sinivalas) | | `-- B. m. brevicauda (pikkusinivalas) | `--o B. brydei -group (brydenvalaat) | |-- B. omurai Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003 (Omura's whale; omuranvalas) | `--+-- B. edeni Anderson, 1878 (Eden's whale; edeninvalas) | `--+-- B. brydei (Bryde's whale; brydenvalas) | `-- B. borealis Lesson, 1828 [taxonomic history] (sei whale; seitivalas) `--+?- †“Megaptera” miocaena (Kellogg, 1922) `--+-- B. physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [taxonomic history] (fin whale; sillivalas) `--o Megaptera Gray, 1846 |-- †M. hubachi (Dathe 1983) [Balaenoptera hubachi (Dathe 1983)] `-- M. novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) [Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, 1781] (humpback whale; ryhävalas)
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