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The Balaenidae are the right whale family of mammals of the order Cetacea. They have an arched rosrum giving a deeply curved jaw line, very long and slender baleen plates and no throat grooves. They are quite rotund with a relatively large head and a narrow upper jawbone, and have tactile hairs on their heads.
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Baleen plates are sheets of stiff fibrous tissue derived from the upper palate in some whales, that shred as they are worn to form a filter plate for plankton. The whales catch the plankton on the straining-hairs and suck them off with their tongues.
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Mysticeti is the baleen whale family of mammals of the order Cetacea. They are named after the baleen plates that are present. The family includes the Blue Whale and Minke Whale.
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