Author Georges Clerc-Rampal (1870–1958)
Description
Français : Baleine des Basques (longeur : 20 metres)
English:
Subject: Baleen whales, Whales
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1913
Source/Photographer
Français : Clerc-Rampal, G. (1913) Mer : la Mer Dans la Nature, la Mer et l'Homme, Paris: Librairie Larousse, p. 114
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_36975_Baleine_des_Basques_(longeur_-_20_metres).jpeg

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis, which means "good, or true, whale of the ice") is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, all of which were formerly classified as a single species. Because of their docile nature, their slow surface-skimming feeding behaviors, their tendencies to stay close to the coast, and their high blubber content (which makes them float when they are killed, and which produced high yields of whale oil), right whales were once a preferred target for whalers. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Balaenidae, Genus: Eubalaena, Species: Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776).
Synonyms:
Balaena biscayensis Eschricht, 1860
B. glacialis Müller, 1776
B. glacialis glacialis Scheffer & Rice, 1963
B. mysticetus islandica Kerr, 1792
B. nordcaper Lacépède, 1804
Baloena glacialis Robineau, 1989
E. glacialis glacialis Tomilin, 1957
Hunterius swedenborgii Lilljeborg, 1867
Macleayius britannicus Gray, 1870