WoRMS taxon details
Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)
AphiaID: 220222
AphiaID: 220222
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Mysticeti (Superfamily) > Balaenidae (Family) > Eubalaena (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Eubalaena Gray, 1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828 (synonym) Balaena antipodum Gray, 1843 (synonym) Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 (synonym) Balaena capensis Gray, 1868 (synonym) Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776 (synonym) Balaena glacialis australis Scheffer & Rice, 1963 (synonym) Balaena hectori Gray, 1874 (synonym) Balaena mysticetus antarcticus Schlegel, 1841 (synonym) Baloena australis (Synonym) Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866 (synonym) Eubalaena glacialis australis Tomilin, 1962 (synonym) Halibalaena britannica Gray, 1873 (synonym) Hunterus temminckii Gray, 1864 (synonym) Macleayius australiensis Gray, 1865 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Desmoulins, A. (1822). Baleine:155-160 in Dictionaire classique d'Histoire naturelle. 2. Paris, Rey et Gravier. page(s): 161 [details] basis of record: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: Robineau, D. (1989). Les types de cétacés actuels du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle I. Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Kogiidae, Ziphiidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4th ser., 11, section A, no. 1:271-289. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctica [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (463 nucleotides; 300 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Holotype: None formally designated by Desmoulins, but see Lectotype in reference to two specimens figured by Delalande that Desmoulins was aware of. [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Chile-Peru right whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details] IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details] Lectotype: female (?), region of the Cape of Good Hope, collected by Delalande in 1818. Mounted skeleton with baleen. Mus. natn. d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; No. JAC 1921-123, CAC A2929, CAG B II/208. One of two syntypes; other designated by Robineau (1989) as paralectotype (Paris CAC A. 2933; CAG B II/212. [details] Type locality: Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220222 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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