北大西洋露脊鲸（Eubalaena glacialis）是露脊鲸的一种，属于真露脊鲸属。目前大约有300条北大西洋露脊鲸生活在北大西洋的海域。就像其他的露脊鲸一样，可以从头部上的茧、宽阔而没有背鳍的背部与拱状的嘴特征分辨来牠们。北大西洋露脊鲸的身体是深灰色或黑色，有时在腹部有一些斑点。露脊鲸的斑点是白色的，不是因为皮肤的色素，而是因为大片的鲸虱寄生的缘故。biscayensis（Eschricht, 1860）与nordcaper（Lacepede, 1804）皆为北大西洋露脊鲸的异名。

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis, which means "good, or true, whale of the ice") is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, all of which were formerly classified as a single species. Because of their docile nature, their slow surface-skimming feeding behaviors, their tendencies to stay close to the coast, and their high blubber content (which makes them float when they are killed, and which produced high yields of whale oil), right whales were once a preferred target for whalers. At present, they are among the most endangered whales in the world, and they are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act and Canada's Species at Risk Act. There are about 400 individuals in existence in the western North Atlantic Ocean - they migrate between feeding grounds in the Gulf of Maine and their winter calving areas off Georgia and Florida, an ocean area with heavy shipping traffic. In the eastern North Atlantic, on the other hand – with a total population reaching into the low teens at best – scientists believe that they may already be functionally extinct. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fixed fishing gear, which together account for nearly half of all North Atlantic right whale mortality since 1970, are their two greatest threats to recovery.