After Nowak, 1990, and McKenna & Bell, 1997
<==o Balaenidae Gray, 1825 [incl. Neobalaenidae Gray, 1873] [Balaenoidea Gray, 1825 sensu Bisconti, 2005] (right whales; sileävalaat) |?- †Protobalaena Du Bus, 1867 (nomen nudum) |?- †Mesoteras kerrianus Cope, 1870 (nomen vanum) |?- Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846) Gray, 1864 [Balaena marginata Gray, 1846] [Neobalaenidae Gray, 1873] [removed to Cetotheriidae by Marx & Fordyce, 2016] (pygmy right whale; kääpiövalas) `--o Balaenidae Gray, 1825 sensu Bisconti, 2005 |?- †“Balaena” primigenius van Beneden, 1878 [Balaenidae gen. indet.] [Bisconti, 2005] |?- †Balaenotus insignis Van Beneden, 1878 [Balaenidae indet.] [Bisconti, 2005] |-- †Morenocetus parvus Cabrera, 1926 |--+-- †Balaenella brachyrhynus Bisconti, 2005; L.Plioc. WEu. | `--o Balaena [Hunterius; Macleayius; Palaeobalaena] Linnaeus, 1758 (bowhead whales; grönlanninvalaat) | |?- †B. affinis | |?- †B. arcuata | |?- †B. balsami (nomen nudum) | |?- †B. dubusi [Balaena dubusii | |?- †B. etrusca (nomen nudum) | |?- †B. forsythmajori | |?- †B. japonica | |?- †B. lamanoni | |?- †B. larteti | |?- †B. macrocephalus | |?- †B. meneghinii | |?- †B. molassica (nomen dubium) | |?- †B. pampaea | |?- †B. paronai (nomen nudum) | |?- †B. simpsoni (nomen vanum) | |?- †B. swedenborgi [Balaena svendenborgii | |?- †B. tannenbergii (nomen dubium) | |?- †B. tarentina | |-- †B. montalionis capellini, 1904 | `--+-- †B. ricei Westgate & Whitmore, 2002 | `-- B. mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 [Balaena prisca] (bowhead whale; grönlanninvalas) `--+--o †Balaenula Van Beneden, 1872 | |-- †B. sp. [Japan] | |-- †B. astensis | `-- †B. balaenopsis Van Beneden, 1880 `--o Eubalaena Gray, 1864 (mustavalaat) |-- †E. belgica (Abel, 1941) [Balaena belgica Abel, 1941; Balaena belgica plisnier-Ladame & Quinet, 1969; Eubalaena belgica (Abel) McLeod et al., 1993; Eubalaena belgica (Abel) Bisconti, 2000, 2003, 2005] |--o E. australis (Desmoulins, in Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1822) [Balaena antarctica; Balaena sieboldii] (etelänmustavalas) | |-- E. a. australis | `-- E. a. sieboldi (<>E.-Jäämeri) `--o E. glacialis (Müller, 1776) [Balaena biscayensis] ( black right whale; mustavalas, nordkapinvalas) |-- E. g. glacialis (<>P.-Atlantti) `-- E. g. japonica (<>P.-Tyynimeri)
Reference(s):
- Bisconti, M., 2005: Skull morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new diminutive balaenid from the Lower Pliocene of Belgium.
–Palaeontology: Vol. 48, #4, pp. 793-816 - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Marx, F. G. & Fordyce, R. E., 2016: A Link No Longer Missing: New Evidence for the Cetotheriid Affinities of Caperea.
–Plos One: Vol. 11, #10, art. e0164059 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164059] - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631 - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's Mammals of the World; Part 1.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xlviii-642-lxiii - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's mammals of the World; Part 2.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xii-643-1629