Mysticeti

== Translingual == === Etymology === Originally from a transcription error that produced the ghost word Ancient Greek μυστικῆτος (mustikêtos) in Aristotle's History of Animals. === Proper noun === Mysticeti A taxonomic parvorder within the order Artiodactyla – baleen whales. ==== Hypernyms ==== (parvorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Cetacea – infraorder ==== Hyponyms ==== (parvorder): Balaenidae (right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales) – families === References === Mysticeti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mysticeti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Mysticeti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Mysticeti at World Register of Marine Species Mysticeti in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell. Mysticeti at Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Mysticeti at the Tree of Life Web Project Mysticeti at National Center for Biotechnology Information