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Español: ballena franca pigmea o ballena franca enana (Caperea marginata)
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The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a member of the cetotheres, a family of baleen whales, which until 2012 were thought to be extinct; previously C. marginata was considered the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae. It is the smallest of the baleen whales, ranging between 6 and 6.5 metres in length and 3,000 and 3,500 kilograms in mass. Despite its name, the pygmy right whale may have more in common with the gray whale and rorquals than the bowhead and right whales. The pygmy right whale is found in the Southern Ocean in the lower reaches of the Southern Hemisphere, and feeds on copepods and euphausiids. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Cetotheriidae, Subfamily: Neobalaeninae, Genus: Caperea, Species: Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846).