North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown_Goode
Description
English: Right Whale of the Pacific
Balaena japonica, Gray. (Eubalaena cullamach
Subject: Right whales
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1884
Source/Photographer
English: Goode, George Brown (1884) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50843_Right_Whale_of_the_Pacific.jpeg
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, robust baleen whale species that is now extremely rare and endangered. The Northeast Pacific subpopulation, which summers in the southeastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, may have no more than 40 animals. A western subpopulation that summers in the Sea of Okhotsk between the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island appears to number in the low hundreds of animals. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Balaenidae, Genus: Eubalaena, Species: Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818).
Synonyms:
B. japonica (Lacépède, 1804) (basionym)
B. sieboldii (Gray, 1864)
E. sieboldii (Gray, 1868)
E. glacialis japonica (Imaizumi, 1958)
Balaenoptera antarctica (Temminck, 1841)