Southern right whale (scientific name: Eubalaena australis) is also known as Southern right whale in foreign languages. It has no subspecies. It was described by Desmoulins in 1822, and later classified as a genus of Eubalaena by Gray in 1864. The previous classification considered the Southern righ...
The North Atlantic right whale (Scientific name: Eubalaena glacialis Borowski) is also known as the North Atlantic Right whale. Due to excessive hunting around the world, it is on the verge of extinction and has been listed as one of the six whales in danger of extinction in the world.The North Atla...
The North Pacific right whale has no subspecies.For a long time, cetaceans believed that right whales in the northern and southern hemispheres were two species: the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) and the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis). Rice (1998) advocated that the genus Eub...