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.