Mysticetus Collection

A RIGHT WHALE
A right whale

Bowhead whale and cachelot
Whalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History (Naturgeschichte)

Fin whale (endangered) and bowhead whale
Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus (endangered) and bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, being hunted by whalers with harpoons. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Cetaceans
Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, short-beaked dolphin, Delphinus delphis, extinct Stellers sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus

Whalers hunting a bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Above and below the vignette are examples of the whales diet of shellfish, plankton and shrimp

Bowhead whale, dolphin and porpoise
Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus 1, short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis 2 and porpoise, Phocoena phocoena 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus Endangered species
Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Endangered species.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Baleana Whale
BALEANA MYSTICETUS Date: circa 1870

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