Mysticeti
Translingual
kinds of baleen whales (Mysticeti)
Etymology
Originally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals.
Proper noun
Mysticeti
- A taxonomic suborder within the order Cetacea – the baleen whales.
Hypernyms
- (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
- (suborder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales), Neobalaenidae (pygmy right whales) - family
References
Mysticeti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mysticeti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Mysticeti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Mysticeti at World Register of Marine Species
- Mysticeti in Mammal Species of the World 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