Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
Description
English: Whale Fishery

Fig.1, the Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) = sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Fig.2, the California Gray Whale (Rhachianectes glaucens) = gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
Fig.3, The North Pacific Humpback (Megaptera versabilis) = humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Fig.4, the Sulphur Bottom (Sibbaldius sulfureus) = blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Fig.5, the Bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) = bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)
Fig.6, the Fin-back or Oregon Finner (Balaenoptera velifera) = fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
Fig.7, the Pacific Right Whale (Balaena japonica) = North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)

Subject: Whales, Sperm whale, Gray whale, Humpback whale, Blue whale, Bowhead whale, Finback whale, Right whales
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1887
Source/Photographer
English: Goode, George Brown (1887) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_45971_Whale_Fishery.jpeg

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), or cachalot, is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head.

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti). It is the largest animal known to have ever existed. Blue whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans on Earth but their numbers have been greatly reduced due to whaling.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of the family Balaenidae, in suborder Mysticeti, and genus Balaena, once thought to include the right whale.

The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also called the finback whale, razorback, or common rorqual, is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales.

The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, robust baleen whale species that is now extremely rare and endangered.