Rorqual

Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, with nine species in two genera. They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the Blue Whale, which can reach 150 tonnes, and another that reaches 70 tons; even the smallest of the group, the Northern Minke Whale, reaches 9 tonnes.

Rorquals
Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Mysticeti
Family:	Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864
Genera
Balaenoptera Megaptera

Rorqual Media

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  Humpback feeding on young pollock off Alaska

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  Cladogram of the family Balaenopteridae using complete mtDNA sequences and short interspersed repetitive element (SINE) insertion data.

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  Skeleton of the extinct Plesiobalaenoptera hubachi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

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  Incakujira anilliodefuego paratype