Southern right whale
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The southern right whale is a large baleen whale and one of three species of right whale belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Found throughout the Southern Hemisphere, it inhabits oceans between the lati
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Two distinctive colouration patterns
"Sailing"
Breaching in the De Hoop Nature Reserve
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.
Southern right whale
…Carl Linnaeus, who at the time considered all right whales (including the bowhead) to be a single species. In the 19th and 20th centuries the family Balaenidae was the subject of great taxonometric debate. Authorities have repeatedly recategorised the three populations of right whale plus the bowhead whale…
Skull and skeleton of the North Atlantic right whale
Iñupiat in the process of flensing a bowhead whale, Alaska