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Northern Right Whale
Eubalaena glacialis (O. F. Müller, 1776)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Balaenidae - right whales »  genus Eubalaena

Scientific synonyms

Balaena glacialis Müller, 1776
Baloena glacialis Robineau, 1989
Eubalaena antarctica
Eubalaena antipodum
Balaena biscayensis Eschricht, 1860
Macleayius britannicus Gray, 1870
Balaena cisarctica Cope, 1865
Balaena eubalaena Gray, 1871
Eubalaena eubalaena
Balaena euskariensis Real, 1890

Other names

= Atlantic Right Whale
= Black Right Whale
= North Atlantic Right Whale

Images

Eubalaena glacialis - Northern Right Whale

Author: Hana Motyčková

Eubalaena glacialis - Northern Right Whale

Author: B. Kao

Eubalaena glacialis - Northern Right Whale

Author: B. Kao

Eubalaena glacialis - Northern Right Whale

Author: B. Kao

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

subspecies Eubalaena glacialis glacialis (Müller, 1776) - Northern Right Whale

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41712]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006395]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Eubalaena glacialis (O. F. Müller, 1776)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Eubalaena glacialis Müller, 1776]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)]

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