Well this got ignored Seeing as how sperm whales are considered great whales and at least three of the species of baleen whales aren t considered great whales I removed the term from the lead I don t really consider Omura s whale great whales either as they don t get to 40 ft arbitrary yes and weren t an important component of commercial whaling the two species of minke although important commercially are too small while only one became important after the larger species had become depleted