He also obtained the skeletons from a bowhead whale ( " Balaena mysticetus " ) and a young Blue Whale ( " Balaenoptera musculus " ), which are still on display in the museum.
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Sea waters are often visited by bowhead whale ( " Balaena mysticetus " ), gray whale ( " Eschrichtius robustus " ), smelt, saffron cod, polar cod, flounder and Arctic char.
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In fact, there " was " indeed a difference between the two Melville's " Greenland whale ", or " Greenland right whale ", was in fact the modern-day bowhead whale, " Balaena mysticetus ".
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As recently as 1998, Rice, in his comprehensive and otherwise authoritative classification, " Marine mammals of the world : systematics and distribution ", listed just two species : " Balaena glacialis " ( all of the right whales ) and " Balaena mysticetus " ( the bowheads ).