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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
| Family: | Eschrichtiidae Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951 |
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Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (Miocene), Glaucobalaena and Eschrichtioides (Pliocene) from Italy,[1][2] and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina.[3] Some phylogenetic studies have found this family to be invalid, with its members nesting inside of the clade Balaenopteridae.[4][5] The names of the extant genus and the family honours Danish zoologist Daniel Eschricht.[6]
- ^ Bisconti 2008
- ^ Bisconti, Michelangelo; Damarco, Piero; Marengo, Lorenza; Macagno, Mattia; Daniello, Riccardo; Pavia, Marco; Carnevale, Giorgio (2024-09-05). "Anatomy and Relationships of a New Gray Whale from the Pliocene of Piedmont, Northwestern Italy". Diversity. 16 (9): 547. doi:10.3390/d16090547. ISSN 1424-2818.
- ^ Pyenson & Lindberg 2011
- ^ McGowen, Michael R; Tsagkogeorga, Georgia; Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; dos Reis, Mario; Struebig, Monika; Deaville, Robert; Jepson, Paul D; Jarman, Simon; Polanowski, Andrea; Morin, Phillip A; Rossiter, Stephen J (2019-10-21). "Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 479–501. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz068. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 7164366. PMID 31633766.
- ^ "Explore the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
- ^ Jones & Swartz 2008, p. 503