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Omura's Whale
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Salvatore Cerchio et al. / Royal Society Open Science, some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Omura's Whale

Balaenoptera omurai

Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known. Before its formal description, it was referred to as a small, "dwarf" or "pygmy" form of Bryde's whale by various sources. The common name and specific epithet commemorate Japanese cetologist Hideo Omura.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 74104.