#0426 · 🦊 mammals
Southern Right Whale
🇳🇱 Zuidkaper ·Eubalaena australis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © martinmoscovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marcia Fargnoli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Oregon State University · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © janconl · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Pablo Fraire · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Christian Ostrosky · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Andrew Barclay · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Nestor Galina · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,630 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Desmoulins in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Right Whale
- Nederlands
- Zuidkaper
- scientific name
- Eubalaena australis
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Balaenidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,630
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by Antoine Desmoulins
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41571, Wikidata Q244410, GBIF 2440332, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.