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Eschrichtiidae Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951
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Description
Family ESCHRICHTIIDAE
(GRAY WHALE)
• Medium-sized baleen whale with prominent external parasites (barnacles and whale lice), no dorsal fin but with distinct knobs on dorsal ridge and anteriortailstock; blow is low and heart-shaped.
• 1300-1500 cm.
• North Pacific, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Chukchi Sea, and Arctc Ocean.
• (Coastal continental shelf waters, and mid-latitude temperate and subtropical coastal bays, lagoons, and coastal areas to breed.
•] genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Eschrichtiidae, pp. 222-241 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6599161
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Eschrichtiidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ellerman & Morrison-Scott
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eschrichtiidae Ellerman, 1951 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014