Balaenoptera omurai Wada 2003 (rorqual)
Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Balaenopteridae
PaleoDB taxon number: 104742
Alternative combination: Rorqualus omurai
Full reference: S. Wada. 2003. A newly discovered species of living baleen whale. Nature 426:278-281
Belongs to Balaenoptera according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015
Sister taxa: Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Balaenoptera andrejewi, Balaenoptera bertae, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, Balaenoptera borealis, Balaenoptera brydei, Balaenoptera cephalus, Balaenoptera davidsonii, Balaenoptera edeni, Balaenoptera fasciata, Balaenoptera grimmi, Balaenoptera musculus, Balaenoptera physalus, Balaenoptera ryani, Balaenoptera siberi, Balaenoptera sursiplana
Type specimen: NSMT-M32505, an other
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder