Balaenidae
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Balaenidae is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti that contains mostly fossil taxa and two living genera: the right whale, and the closely related bowhead whale.
Skull and skeleton of the North Atlantic right whale
Iñupiat in the process of flensing a bowhead whale, Alaska
Right whale
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Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale, the North Pacific right whale and the southern right whale. They are classified in the fam
Balaenidae
…is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti (baleen whales) that contains mostly fossil taxa and two living genera: the right whale (genus Eubalaena), and the closely related bowhead whale (genus Balaena). Family Balaenidae Genus Balaena Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus Genus Eubalaena North Atlantic…
Southern right whale
North Pacific right whale in Half Moon Bay, California, 20 March 1982, photo by Jim Scarff
Southern right whale in the breeding grounds at Peninsula Valdés, Patagonia
Orange whale lice on a right whale