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• Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010). A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
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• Gaines, C. A., Hare M. P., Beck S. E., & Rosenbaum H. C. (2005). Nuclear markers confirm taxonomic status and relationships among highly endangered and closely related right whale species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 272, 533-542.
• Hamilton et al. (1998) Age structure and longevity in North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis and their relation to reproduction. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 171:285-292.
• Hershkovitz, Philip. 1966. Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin 246. viii + 259
• Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. (ed.), (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Belfast: Ulster Museum. [Ulster Museum publication, no. 276.]
• IUCN (2008) Cetacean update of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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• Jefferson, T.A., Leatherwood, S. & Webber, M.A., (1994). FAO species identification guide. Marine mammals of the world. Rome: United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• Katona, S., S. Kraus. 1999. Efforts to Conserve the North Atlantic Right Whale. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Keller, R.W., S. Leatherwood & S.J. Holt (1982). Indian Ocean Cetacean Survey, Seychelle Islands, April to June 1980. Rep. Int. Whal. Commn 32, 503-513.
• Kinze, C. C., (2002). Photographic Guide to the Marine Mammals of the North Atlantic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Leatherwood, S. and R. R. Reeves. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. Sierra Club Press, San Francisco.
• Lesage, Veronique, Jean-Francois Gosselin, Mike Hammill, Michael C.S. Kingsley, Jack Lawson (2007). Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence - A marine mammal perspective. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2007/046: 1-96.
• Mayo, C.A., Marx, M.K. (1990) Surface foraging behavior of the North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and associated zooplankton characteristics. Canadian Journal of Zoology, (68), pp. 2214-20.
• Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1. 723-743
• Murison, L.D., Gaskin, D.E. (1989) The distribution of right whales and zooplankton in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology, (67), pp. 1411- 20.
• Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org
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• Payne, R. (1994) Among whales. Natural History, (1), pp. 40-47.
• Perrin, W. (2012). Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776). In: Perrin, W.F. (2012) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2012) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159023 on 2012-05-23
• Ramos, M. (ed.). 2010. IBERFAUNA. The Iberian Fauna Databank
• Reeves, R.R. (1979) Right whale: Protected but still in trouble. National Parks and Conservation Magazine, (2), pp. 10-15.
• Reeves, R.R., Kraus, S., Turnbull, P. (1983) Right whale refuge? Natural History, (4), pp. 40-44.
• Reid. J.B., Evans. P.G.H., Northridge. S.P. (ed.), (2003). Atlas of Cetacean Distribution in North-west European Waters. Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
• Rosenbaum, H. C., Brownell R. L., Brown M. W., Schaeff C., Portway V., White B. N., et al. (2000). World-wide genetic differentiation of Eubalaena: questioning the number of right whale species. Molecular Ecology. 9, 1793-1802.
• Rosenbaum, H., R. Brownell, M. Brown, C. Schaeff, V. Portway, B. White, S. Malik, L. Pastene, N. Patenaude, C. Baker, M. Goto, P. Best, P. Clapham, P. Hamilton, M. Moore, R. Payne, V. Rowntree, C. Tynan, J. Bannister, R. DeSalle. 2000. World-wide genetic differentiation of Eubalaena: questioning the number of right whale species.. Molecular Ecology, 9: 1793-1802. Accessed December 01, 2003 at http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/pubs/rosenbaummolecol.pdf.
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• Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. 2000. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204
• Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. 1999. The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. xxv + 750