Black whale

Black whale

Black whale is a vernacular name for certain whales. It may be encountered as a colloquial or as a quasi-scientific term.

* In whaling jargon, the Sperm Whale ("Physeter macrocephalus") of the Physeteridae was sometimes known as the "black whale"
* "Black Whale" is a name for a presumed Right Whale species in the Balaenidae. It was also called "Northern Right Whale" but has more recently been separated into:
** North Atlantic Right Whale ("Eubalaena glacialis")
** North Pacific Right Whale ("Eubalaena japonica")


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