Eschrichtiidae Author Russell A. Mittermeier Author Don E. Wilson text 2014 2014-07-31 Lynx Edicions Barcelona Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals 222 241 book chapter 61363 10.5281/zenodo.6599161 bea9f630-53ad-402c-9dc3-51e394c1073a 978-84-96553-93-4 6599161 Family ESCHRICHTIIDAE (GRAY WHALE) • Medium-sized baleen whale with prominent external parasites (barnacles and whale lice), no dorsal fin but with distinct knobs on dorsal ridge and anteriortailstock; blow is low and heart-shaped. • 1300-1500 cm. • North Pacific, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Chukchi Sea, and Arctc Ocean. • (Coastal continental shelf waters, and mid-latitude temperate and subtropical coastal bays, lagoons, and coastal areas to breed. •] genus, 1 species, 1 taxon. • No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.