The whale's body is typically a dark steel grey
with irregular light grey to white markings on the
ventral surface, or towards the front of the lower body.
The whale has a series of 32–60 pleats or grooves
along the bottom of the body that allow the throat area
to expand greatly during feeding. The snout is pointed
and the pectoral fins are relatively short compared to
other whales, with a length of only 9%–10% of the total
body length, and pointed at the tips.It has single ridge
extending from the tip of the snout to the paired blowholes
that are a distinctive characteristic of baleen whales.

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