WoRMS taxon details
Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937
AphiaID: 231433
AphiaID: 231433
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Ziphiidae (Family) > Tasmacetus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tasmacetus Oliver, 1937 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Oliver, W. R. B. (1937). Tasmacetus shepherdi: a new genus and species of beaked whale from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, Series B (3):371--381, pl. 1--5. [details] basis of record: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 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] additional source: 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: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: cold temperate, oceanic [details] Holotype: Skull and partial skeleton in the Wanganui Alexander Museum, New Zealand, from whale that stranded on 7 November 1933 and was collected by G. Shepherd and turned over to Oliver for description. Sex not determined. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Beach at Ohawe, Taranaki, west coast of North Island, New Zealand. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231433 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937. 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=231433 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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