Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) 
AphiaID: 159023

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Balaenidae > Eubalaena

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Eubalaena Gray, 1864
Synonymised taxa		Balaena biscayensis Eschricht, 1860 (synonym) Balaena cisarctica Cope, 1865 (synonym) Balaena eubalaena Gray, 1871 (synonym) Balaena euskariensis Real, 1890 (synonym) Balaena glacialis Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Balaena glacialis Borowski, 1781 (synonym) Balaena glacialis glacialis Scheffer & Rice, 1963 (synonym) Balaena islandica Gmelin, 1788 (synonym) Balaena mediterranea Gray, 1870 (synonym) Balaena mysticetus islandica Kerr, 1792 (synonym) Balaena nordcaper Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Balaena tarentina Capellini, 1873 (synonym) Balaena vanbenedeniana Fischer, 1881 (synonym) Balaena vanbenediana Capellini, 1873 (synonym) Baloena glacialis Robineau, 1989 (Synonym) Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Tomilin, 1957 (synonym) Hunterius swedenborgii Lilljeborg, 1867 (synonym) Macleayius britannicus Gray, 1870 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text] original description: Müller. (1776). Zool. Danicae prodr. page(s): 7 [details] basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p. [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Basque sardaco-baleac  [details] Bulgarian yuzhen kit  [details] Bulgarian Южен кит  [details] Catalan balena basca  [details] Czech veloryba biskeyská  [details] Czech velryba černá  [details] Danish biscayrhval  [details] Danish noordkaper  [details] Danish nordhval  [details] Danish nordkaper  [details] Danish svarthval  [details] Dutch noordkaper  [details] English Biscayan right whale  [details] English black right whale  [details] English nordcaper  [details] English North Atlantic right whale  [details] English northern right whale  [details] French baleine de Biscaye  [details] French baleine des Basques  [details] French baleine d'Islande  [details] French baleine franche de Biscaye  [details] French baleine franche noire  [details] French sarde  [details] German Atlantischer Nordkaper  [details] German Biskayerwal  [details] German Eiswalfisch  [details] German Nordatlantische Glattwal  [details] German Nordatlantischer Glattwal  [details] German Nordkaper  [details] Icelandic hafurkitti  [details] Icelandic sljettbakur  [details] Italian balena dei Baschi  [details] Italian balena franca  [details] Italian balena franca nordatlantica  [details] Italian balena nera  [details] Lithuanian pietinis banginis  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Νότια σωστή φάλαινα  [details] Norwegian id  [details] Norwegian liljehval  [details] Norwegian nordhval  [details] Norwegian nordkaper  [details] Norwegian nordkarper  [details] Norwegian sildual  [details] Norwegian Bokmål nordkaper  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk nordkaper  [details] Polish wieloryb biskajski  [details] Portuguese baleia franca negra  [details] Russian biskai kit  [details] Russian iuzhnyi kit  [details] Russian nastoiashchii Atlanticheskii kit  [details] Russian nastoiashchii Atlanticheskii kit  [details] Russian кит южный  [details] Slovenian Biskajski kit  [details] Spanish ballena con bonete  [details] Spanish ballena de los vascos  [details] Spanish ballena franca  [details] Spanish ballena vasca  [details] Spanish ballena vizcaya  [details] Spanish vallena  [details] Swedish ishafs hvalfisk  [details] Swedish nordcapere  [details] Turkish buzul balinası  [details] Ukrainian Кит південний  [details] Ukrainian Південний кит  [details] Welsh morfil y basgiaid  [details]
All child taxa [hide all]		Subspecies Eubalaena glacialis australis Tomilin, 1962 accepted as Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822) Subspecies Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Tomilin, 1957 accepted as Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) Subspecies Eubalaena glacialis japonica Imaizumi, 1958 accepted as Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818) Subspecies Eubalaena glacialis sieboldii Tomilin, 1957 accepted as Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818)
Environment		marine
Distribution		Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (76 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2506 nucleotides; 26 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Diet: Copepods (largely of the genera Calanus and Pseudocalanus) and krill. [details] Dimensions: Length: male 49-54' (14.9-16.4 m), female 51-60' (15.5-18.3 m), at birth 16' + (4.9 m+) [details] Distribution: temperate and subpolar waters of North Atlantic [details] Distribution:  Eastern and Western North Atlantic Ocean [details] Habitat: inshore and offshore [details] Holotype: None, based on the North Atlantic "sild-qval," "lille-hval," or "Nord-Kaper" of Norwegian whalers and reference to Egede (1742)Des alten Grönlandes Naturell-historie, Kopenhagen, Chapter 6. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details] Morphology: Distinguishing characteristics: craggy patches on head called "callosities" used to identify individuals. Lift large, all black tail when diving. Blow readily visible-6 m (20') v-shaped. No dorsal fin. Large lower lips, narrow rostrum, broad throat without throat pleats. Black to mottled grey, white scarring, white belly patches in 30% of individuals.  [details] Predators: Approximately one-third of all right whale mortality is caused by human activities (NOAA,NMFS-NE-162). Young animals, ages 0-4 years, are the most vunerable [details] Reproduction: Wintering and calving in Decmeber to March in Georgia/Florida waters. Summer feeding and nursery grounds in New England waters, Bay of Fundy and Scotian Shelf. Weaning is at one year. [details] Type locality: North Cape, Norway [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 07) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-27 21:55:31 [image from synonym] Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 08) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-09-08 00:59:18 Eubalaena glacialis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:30:52 Right whale added on 2011-02-14 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-27 21:17:36 Right whale added on 2011-02-14 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-27 21:17:47 Right whale - Eubalaena glacialis added on 2012-07-26 - author: Jim Cornall/Huntsman Marine Science Centre () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-27 21:18:00
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159023
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-05-27 09:47:05Z   created   Appeltans, Ward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William 2009-03-27 18:47:43Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159023 on 2013-06-20