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Right whale
genus of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The right whales (Eubalaena spp.), also known as the black whales are baleen whales with bow-shaped lower jaw and a head that is up to one-quarter of the body length. The head is hairier than most whales; up to 300 hairs are found on the tip of the lower jaw and 100 are on the upper jaw. There are also callosities (a series of horny growths) behind the blowhole, on the chin, above the eyes, on the lower lip, and on the rostrum (the beak-like upper jaw).
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Right whales[1] | |
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Southern right whale breaching | |
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Size compared to an average human | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Balaenidae |
Genus: | Eubalaena Gray, 1864 |
Type species | |
Eubalaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 | |
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E. glacialis ranges E. australis range E. japonica range | |
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