Bryde's whale
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| phylum | Chordata | The Bryde's whale complex comprises two putative species of rorqual: Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei, Olsen, 1913), a larger form that occurs worldwide in warm temperate and tropical waters, and the Sittang or Eden's whale (B. edeni, Anderson, 1878), a smaller form that may be restricted to the Indo-Pacific. There is also a smaller, coastal form of B. brydei off southern Africa, and perhaps another form in the Indo-Pacific which differs in skull morhology, tentatively referred to as the Indo-Pacific Bryde's whale..
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Cetacea | |
| suborder | Mysticeti | |
| family | Balaenopteridae | |
| genus | Balaenoptera | |
| species | B. brydei B. edeni B. omurai |
