Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Mysticeti > Family Balaenidae > Genus Eubalaena

Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eubalaena*	Gray, 1864	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Basque: sardaco-baleac

Bulgarian: yuzhen kit; Южен кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: balena basca

Czech: veloryba biskeyská; velryba černá

Danish: biscayrhval; noordkaper; nordhval; nordkaper; svarthval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: noordkaper

English: Biscayan right whale; black right whale; nordcaper; North Atlantic right whale; northern right whale sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: baleine de Biscaye; baleine des Basques; baleine d'Islande; baleine franche de Biscaye; baleine franche noire; sarde sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Atlantischer Nordkaper; Biskayerwal; Eiswalfisch; Nordatlantische Glattwal; Nordatlantischer Glattwal; Nordkaper sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Νότια σωστή φάλαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: hafurkitti; sljettbakur

Italian: balena dei Baschi; balena franca; balena franca nordatlantica; balena nera sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: pietinis banginis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: id; liljehval; nordhval; nordkaper; nordkarper; sildual sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: nordkaper sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: nordkaper sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: wieloryb biskajski sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia franca negra

Russian: biskai kit; iuzhnyi kit; nastoiashchii Atlanticheskii kit; nastoiashchii Atlanticheskii kit; кит южный sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: Biskajski kit sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena con bonete; ballena de los vascos; ballena franca; ballena vasca; ballena vizcaya; vallena sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: ishafs hvalfisk; nordcapere

Turkish: buzul balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Кит південний; Південний кит sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil y basgiaid

Literature

original description	Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodrome of Danish Zoology, or the Native Animals of Denmark and Norway: the characters, names, and synonyms of the most popular ones.]. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp.
basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159023