|
| trend = up
| status_system = iucn2.3
| status_ref =<ref name="iucn">{{IUCN2006|assessors=Cetacean Specialist
| status_ref =<ref name="iucn">{{IUCN2006|assessors=Cetacean Specialist Group|year=1996|id=13006|title=Megaptera novaeangliae|downloaded=[[11 May]] [[2006]]}} Database entry includes a lengthy justification of why this species is vulnerable </ref><ref name="bbcnews">IUCN quoted as downgrading the Humpback to Least Concern [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7553805.stm]</ref>
| image = Humpback_Whale_underwater_shot.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image2 = Humpback_whale_size.svg
|
| regnum = [[Dýraríki]]ð (''Animalia'')
| phylum = [[Seildýr]] (''Chordata'')
| classis = [[Spendýr]] (''Mammalia'')
| ordo = [[Hvalir]] (''Cetacea'')
| familia = [[Reyðarhvalir]] (''Balaenopteridae'')
| genus = Hnúfubakar (''[[Megaptera]]'')
| genus_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1846
| 