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- The true origins of the world’s smallest and weirdest whaleThe pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the weirdest whale you’ve probably never heard of. It is the smallest of the living baleen whales and restricted to the Southern Hemisphere. Its...
- Pygmy Right Whale Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846)The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846) (Fig. 1) is currently recognized as the only extant species of the family Neobalaenidae (sensu Gray, 1846) by the Society for Marine Mammalogy Taxonomy Committee, the International Whaling Commission, and the IUCN (Cooke, 2018).
- The Pygmy Right Whale Was the Family Weirdo, and it Never Went ExtinctThe pygmy right whale looks like a miniature version of a baleen whale, hence the name “pygmy.” It’s the smallest of the filter-feeding whales, weighing in at just under 1,000 pounds. Rarely observed and shy by nature, it’s found in the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
- Pygmy right whale - WikipediaThe pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a species of baleen whale. It may be a member of the cetotheres, [5] a family of baleen whales which until 2012 were thought to be extinct; C. marginata has otherwise been considered the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae [6] and is the only member of the genus Caperea.
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