Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative spelling: Agaphelidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1870. Observations on the whales described in the Osteographie des Cetaces of MM. Van Beneden and Gervais. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:193-204
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to T. Gill 1872
See also Gill 1871 and Gray 1870
Sister taxa: Archaebalaenoptera, Balaena affinis, Balaena definata, Balaena emarginata, Balaena gibbosa, Balaenoptera, Balaenoptera borealina, Balaenoptera musculoides, Balaenoptera portisii, Balaenoptera rostratella, Balaenoptera sibbaldina, Balaenoptera taiwanica, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eobalaenoptera, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: none
Type: Agaphelus
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Agaphelinae in the database