in taxon bowhead whale 2025-02-01T03:59:04Z MSW3:14300005 Greenland right whale bowhead A bowhead whale which is dead or alive and has a relatively intact body. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5275-8866 A whole bowhead whale. CEC1993:1468 The bowhead whale (*Balaena mysticetus*) is a baleen whale of the right whale family *Balaenidae*, in suborder *Mysticeti* and genus *Balaena*. It lives entirely in fertile Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, unlike other whales that migrate to feed or reproduce to low latitude waters. It was also known as Greenland right whale or Arctic whale. American whalemen called it the steeple-top, polar whale, or Russia or Russian whale. arctic right whale balaena mysticetus black right whale great polar whale greenland right whale whale Balaena mysticetus ready for release