David HallerIndia
28 déc. 2018

The first twelve of these are baleen (whalebone) whales, filter feeders with baleen plates instead of teeth and the sperm whale is the largest toothed whale. 

Bowhead (or Greenland right whale)
Balaena mysticetus

North Atlantic right whale
Eubalaena glacialis

North Pacific right whale 
Eubalaena japonica 

Southern right whale 
Eubalaena australis 

Gray whale 
Eschrichtius robustus 

Blue whale 
Balaenoptera musculus 

Fin whale 
Balaenoptera physalus

Sei whale 
Balaenoptera borealis 

Bryde's whale 
Balaenoptera edeni 

Common minke whale 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata 

Antarctic minke whale 
Balaenoptera bonaerensis 

Humpback whale 
Megaptera novaeangliae 

Sperm whale 
Physeter macrocephalus
 

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