any whale belonging to the cetacean suborder Mysticeti, having a double blowhole and strips of whalebone between the jaws instead of teeth: includes the rorquals, right whales, and the blue whale
Compare toothed whale
Examples of 'mysticete' in a sentence
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This predominant low-frequency sensitivity has significant implications for assessing mysticete exposure levels to anthropogenic sounds.
Ted W Cranford, Petr Krysl 2015, 'Fin whale sound reception mechanisms: skull vibration enables low-frequency hearing.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4310601?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here, we suggest that this turnover event reflects a change in mysticete habitat occupancy.
Felix G. Marx, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, R. Ewan Fordyce 2019, 'Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”',Acta Palaeontologica Polonicahttp://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app64/app005752018.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Stable isotope analysis in mysticete skin and baleen plates has been repeatedly used to assess diet and movement patterns.
Geraldine Busquets-Vass, Seth D Newsome, John Calambokidis, Gabriela Serra-Valente,Jeff K Jacobsen, Sergio Aguíñiga-García, Diane Gendron 2017, 'Estimating blue whale skin isotopic incorporation rates and baleen growth rates: Implicationsfor assessing diet and movement patterns in mysticetes.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5451050?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)