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  Balea vasca - Wikipedia
Existen catro especies dentro dos xéneros Eubalaena e Balaena.
Algunhas fontes consideran que só existe un xénero e presentan o nome científico desta última como Eubalaena mysticetus.
Distínguese das outras baleas por presentar o corpo totalmente negro, á excepción dunha mancha branca na barriga e por presentar verrugas (calosidades) dun amarelo desmaiado na cabeza.
gl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balea_vasca#Conservaci.C3.B3n   (153 words)

  
  Right whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In dealing with the three populations of Eubalaena right whales, authorities have historically disagreed over whether to categorize the three populations in one, two or three species.
Halibalaena (Gray, 1873) and Hunterius (Gray, 1866) are junior synonyms for the genus Eubalaena.
Today, the three Eubalaena species inhabit three distinct areas of the globe: the Atlantic Northern in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Northern in a band from Japan to Alaska and the Southern in all areas of the Southern Ocean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Right_Whale   (3775 words)

  
 The Bowhead Whale: Literature Cited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Balaena mysticetus) calves in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea during the autumn migration, 1982-85.
Summary of the 1989 and 1990 subsistence harvest of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) by Alaskan Eskimos.
Observations on the 1984 and 1985 subsistence harvest of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) with a note on the fall 1983 harvest.
nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /CetaceanAssessment/Bowhead/lit.htm   (1888 words)

  
 Pictures of the bowhead|Balaena mysticetus facts
The bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
BOWHEAD WHALE: The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an arctic baleen, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length.
The Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus; it's historic and current status - evaluation of endangered Bowhead whale stocks The bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and as depleted under the Marine Mammal.
www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Cetacea/Balaenidae/Balaena/Balaena-mysticetus.html   (439 words)

  
 BrazilTrails
Every year the Arctic Right Whales (Eubalaena Mysticetus) visit the seashore of Santa Catarina between july and november.
There used to be about 100.000 Arctic Right Whales (Eubalaena Mysticetus) in the South Hemisphere and today there are only about 7.000 of this kind left.
During many decades they were hunted for commercial purposes: the fins were used as corsets and their fat was made into oil for lightening the cities and manufacture of mortar.
www.braziltrails.com /week_atv.php?id=5&idioma=in   (636 words)

  
 New Bedford Whaling Museum | Research
In 1849 the Sag Harbor whaling master Thomas Welcome Roys sailed the ship Superior through the Bering Straits and into the Western Arctic.
His quarry was the bowhead whale (Eubalæna mysticetus).
With the hunting of this species a new chapter in the history of American whaling had begun.
www.whalingmuseum.org /kendall/amwhale/am_index.html   (2303 words)

  
 Balaenidae
Sexual composition and analysis of reproductive females in the North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, population.
Assessment of mitochondrial DNA structuring and nursery use in the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis).
Comparison of genetic variability of North and South Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena), using DNA fingerprinting.
tolweb.org /tree?group=Balaenidae   (297 words)

  
 The North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) - the World's Most Endangered Whale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Taxonomically, the right whale "family", Balaenidae, consist of the right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the bowhead whale of the high Arctic (Balaena mysticetus), and the poorly known pygmy right whale of the Southern Hemisphere ().
However, recent genetic studies have caused scientists to conclude that the populations of right whales living in the North Atlantic, Southern Hemisphere and North Pacific are three distinct species.
The North Atlantic whales are referred to as Eubalaena glacialis; the Southern Hemisphere right whales have been named E.
www.sfcelticmusic.com /js/RTWHALES/nprightw.htm   (2674 words)

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