neobalæna

[Pref. neo-, and Lat. balæna (q.v.).] Zool.: A genus of Mystacoceti, with a single rare species, Neobalæna margin at a , the smallest of the Whalebone Whales, from the Australian and New Zealand seas. It is not more than twenty feet in length. The baleen is very long, slender, elastic, and white. neography