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Definition of Mysticete

Mysticete
Mysticete Mys"ti*cete, n. [Gr. my`stax the upper lip, also, the mustache + kh^tos a whale.] (Zo["o]l.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.

Meaning of Mysticete from wikipedia

- second-oldest mysticete, yielded a total length of 8 meters (26 ft), indicating filter feeding was not a driving feature in mysticete evolution. The...
- thought to have had their last common ancestor around 34 million years ago. Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals)...
- mysticetes. Using parsimony to study this and other ancestral characters suggests that the common ancestor of aetiocetids and edentulous mysticetes evolved...
- Aetiocetus is a genus of extinct basal mysticete, or baleen whale that lived 33.9 to 23.03 million years ago, in the Oligocene in the North Pacific ocean...
- occurred once, and both occurred on the mysticete stem branch. Generally it is speculated the four modern mysticete families have separate origins among...
- 1056. PMC 1692962. PMID 12028787. Bannister JL (2008). "Baleen Whales (Mysticetes)". In Perrin WF, Würsig B, Thewissen JG (eds.). Encyclopedia of Marine...
- signature whistles that bottlenose dolphins use as individual labels. Mysticetes do not have phonic lip structure. Instead, they have a larynx that appears...
- whales) have m****ive heads that can make up 40% of their body m****. Most mysticetes prefer the food-rich colder waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres...
- PMID 30804188. Geijer, C. K.; Notarbartolo di Sciara, G.; Panigada, S. (2016). "Mysticete migration revisited: Are Mediterranean fin whales an anomaly?". Mammal...
- rely more on marine mammals as in C. carcharias. The bone of a scavenged mysticete whale with a tooth of C. hubbelli embedded within it supports this hypothesis...