RAMS taxon details

Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 10 & 11)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 10 & 11)

220222 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220222)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Tetrapoda (Megaclass)
  7. Mammalia (Class)
  8. Theria (Subclass)
  9. Cetartiodactyla (Order)
  10. Cetancodonta (Suborder)
  11. Cetacea (Infraorder)
  12. Mysticeti (Superfamily)
  13. Balaenidae (Family)
  14. Eubalaena (Genus)
  15. Eubalaena australis (Species)
accepted
Species
Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena antipodum Gray, 1843 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena hectori Gray, 1874 · unaccepted (synonym)
Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Desmoulins, A. (1822). Baleine. Balaena. Mam. In: Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire naturelle. 2: 155-165. Paris: Rey et Gravier., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25672119
page(s): 161 [details] 
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2026-09-03
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/RAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2026-09-03
Date
action
by
1997-05-01 08:58:20Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-16 21:05:52Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z
checked
Perrin, William

original description (of ) Desmoulins, A. (1822). Baleine. Balaena. Mam. In: Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire naturelle. 2: 155-165. Paris: Rey et Gravier., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25672119
page(s): 161 [details] 

original description (of Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866) Gray J.E. (1866). Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38547844 [details] 

original description (of Balaena hectori Gray, 1874) Gray, J.E. (1874). On the Bladebones of the Balaena Hectori and Megaptera novae-zelandiae. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 13(4): 56-59., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342446 [details] 

original description (of Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828) Lesson, R. P. (1828). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mammifères et des oiseaux décoverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours. 442pp., available online at https://books.google.be/books?id=A5g-AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=Globicephala%5C&f=false [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus : seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum ; characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. 276pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13227086 [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Reyes, J. (2009). Ballenas, delfines y otros cetáceos del Perú. Una fuente de información. <em>Lima- Perú. Squema-Ediciones.</em> 160 pp. [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 Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details] 

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details] 

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] 

additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.292202 [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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English southern right whale  [details]
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Balaena antipodum Gray, 1843)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Balaena glacialis australis Scheffer & Rice, 1963)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (150 publications) (from synonym Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Balaena hectori Gray, 1874)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eubalaena australis) 
To GenBank (550 nucleotides; 518 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 10192 Eubalaena australis skeleton) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 2997 Eubalaena australis skull & skeletal elements) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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