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)
- The Black Whale, a 1934 German film
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