- The
bowhead whale (
Balaena mysticetus),
sometimes called the
Greenland right whale,
Arctic whale, and
polar whale, is a
species of
baleen whale belonging...
-
Balaena is a
genus of
cetacean (whale) in the
family Balaenidae.
Balaena is
considered a
monotypic genus, as it has only a
single extant species, the bowhead...
- 1871 B. m.
musculus Linnaeus, 1758 Blue
whale range (in blue)
Synonyms Balaena musculus Linnaeus, 1758
Balaenoptera gibbar Scoresby 1820 Pterobalaena...
- The
former description was used as the
primary basis for the
species Balaena physalus by Carl
Linnaeus in 1758. In 1804,
Bernard Germain de Lacépède...
- a 9.8 m (32 ft)
whale stranded near Grömitz, in Schleswig-Holstein, as
Balaena rostrata (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). In 1823, the
French naturalist Georges...
- and the
closely related bowhead whale (genus
Balaena).
Family Balaenidae Genus Balaena Bowhead whale,
Balaena mysticetus Genus Eubalaena North Atlantic right...
- glacialis
Binomial name
Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)
Range map
Synonyms Balaena biscayensis Eschricht, 1860 B.
glacialis Müller, 1776 B.
glacialis glacialis...
- ****umed it must be an
already known species and ****igned his
specimen to
Balaena rostrata, a name
given to the
northern bottlenose whale by Otto Friedrich...
-
Pectenocypris balaena is a fish
species in the
genus Pectenocypris from Borneo. Lumbantobing, D. (2020). "Pectenocypris
balaena". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
- The
Balaena Islands are a
small group of
rocky islands lying close to the
coast of Antarctica, 19
kilometres (10 nmi)
northeast of Cape Folger. They were...
