The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) was a large cetacean, a baleen whale, indigenous to planet Earth.
In the year 1986, a model of the whale was displayed in a glass case at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California.
By the late-23rd century the fin whale, along with all the other types of great whale, was extinct. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
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| Earth cetacean species | |
|---|---|
| Baleen whales | blue whale • fin whale • gray whale • humpback whale • minke whale • right whale • sei whale |
| Toothed whales | Atlantic bottlenose dolphin • Baird's beaked whale • Cuvier's beaked whale • pilot whale • orca • Pacific bottlenose dolphin • pygmy sperm whale • sperm whale • Takaya's whale |
External links[]
- Fin whale article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Fin whale article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.