ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Cetacean evolution through the lens of ecospace modeling and disparity analyses.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Correction to: 'Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently' (2022), by Tanaka.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Downsized: gray whales using an alternative foraging ground have smaller morphology.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Baleen whales have lost their functional teeth and begun to use their baleen plates to feed on small prey. Modern baleen whales exhibit different types of feeding strategies, such as lunging, skimming and so on. The evolution of feeding strategy in the Chaeomysticeti is an important step in considering niche partitioning and diversification, feeding efficiency and gigantism, and evolution and extinction. This study analyses the rostrum morphology to test the hypothesis that specific rostral morphologies facilitate special feeding strategies, using modern species and their observed feeding strategies. By this means, the convergence of rostral morphology can be recognized in the closest groups in the morphospace. As a result, the two linages (Balaenidae and
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