Black whale
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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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