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A newly discovered species of living baleen whale

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6964...

Nature 426, 278-281 (20 November 2003)
A new species of Balaenoptera, which is characterized by its unique cranial morphology, its small number of baleen plates, and by its distant molecular relationships with all of its congeners. Our analyses also separated Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale) and Balaenoptera edeni (Eden's whale) into two distinct species, raising the number of known living Balaenoptera species to eight.

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