Figure 2.-1116 western North Atlantic, from lat. 37°N south to eastern Venezuela. 



Order Cetacea 



Suborder Mysticeti — Baleen whales 

 Family Balaenopteridae— Rorquals 



Balaenopteraacutorostrata 



Balaenoptera physalus 



Bataenoptera musculus 



Balaenoptera borealis 



Balaenoptera edeni 



Megaptera novaeangliae 

 Family Balaenidae— Right whales 



Balaenamysticetus 



EubalaerM glacialis 

 Suborder Odontoceti— Toothed whales 

 Family Ziphiidae 



Mesoplodon bidens 



Mesoplodon densirostris 



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