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    The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. On average and...
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    Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis), the North Pacific right whale...
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    The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, all of which...
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    right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Southern right...
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    northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) is a small, slender species of cetacean found in the cold and temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean...
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  • Thumbnail for Pygmy right whale
    The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a species of baleen whale. It may be a member of the cetotheres, a family of baleen whales which until 2012...
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    dorsal fin; nor do right whales and this may explain the dolphins' name. The northern right whale dolphin is the only dolphin in the Pacific with this property...
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    North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans, and as such they were all thought to be a single species, collectively known as the "right whale"...
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    the North Pacific (E. japonica) and Southern right (E. australis) whales are more closely related to each other than to the North Atlantic right whale (E...
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  • Thumbnail for Baird's beaked whale
    beaked whale (Berardius bairdii), also known as the northern giant bottlenose whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, giant four-toothed whale, northern...
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  • species of northern right whale: North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Right whale This page is an...
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    common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the smallest...
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    Balaenidae (category Baleen whales)
    Eubalaena glacialis North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis Until recently, all right whales of the genus Eubalaena...
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    The southern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii) is a small and slender species of cetacean, found in cool waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It...
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    gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, Korean gray whale, or California gray whale, is...
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    whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is one of the two species of cetaceans in the genus Globicephala, which it shares with the long-finned pilot whale...
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    The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the...
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    or three subspecies; the North Atlantic minke whale, the North Pacific minke whale and dwarf minke whale. All minke whales are part of the rorquals,...
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    inhabit the seas near the Hawaiian Islands and in the eastern North Pacific. The false killer whale is thought to be common around the world, though no total...
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    the Indo-Pacific differs in skull morphology, tentatively referred to as the Indo-Pacific Bryde's whale. The recently described Omura's whale (B. omurai...
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    fauna include the Pacific salmon and trout (Oncorhynchus spp.), gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), and North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)...
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  • genus: North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis) North Pacific right whale (E. japonica) Southern right whale (E. australis) Pygmy right whale (Caperea...
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  • Thumbnail for Mesoplodon
    new species of fossil beaked whale, Mesoplodon tumidirostris sp. nov. (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) from the Central North Pacific. Bulletin of the National Science...
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  • Thumbnail for Cuvier's beaked whale
    The Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae...
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  • Thumbnail for Dwarf sperm whale
    The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) is a sperm whale that inhabits temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, in particular continental shelves and slopes...
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  • "northern right whale" but has more recently been separated into: North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena...
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    Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known. Before its formal description, it...
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  • three species of right whale, as the North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a distinct species from the North Atlantic right whale (E.glacialis)...
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    blue and fin whales with characteristics of both are known to occur with relative frequency in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific. The DNA profile...
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    23 May 2019. Rice, D.W. (1974). "Whales and whale research in the North Pacific". In Schervill, W.E. (ed.). The Whale Problem: a status report. Cambridge...
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