Key Identification Features
- Females have a distinct round feature called the hemispherical lobe at the end of their genital slit, which can be used to visually distinguish males from females.
- Though it was first scientifically described in the mid-19th century, it was not accepted as a distinct species until the 1990s.
- A single solitary ridge runs from the tip of the rostrum to the paired blowholes, a distinctive trait of all baleen whales.
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