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Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)

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

accepted
Species
Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena antipodum Gray, 1843 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena capensis Gray, 1868 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776 · unaccepted (synonym)
Balaena hectori Gray, 1874 · unaccepted (synonym)
Baloena australis · unaccepted (Synonym)
Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (synonym)
Halibalaena britannica Gray, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hunterus temminckii Gray, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Macleayius australiensis Gray, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822) 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] 
Note Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2024-11-24
Date
action
by
1997-05-01 08:58:20Z
created
2007-07-16 21:05:52Z
changed
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z
checked

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original description (of Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822) 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] 

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.; 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 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.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 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 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] 

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
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
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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LanguageName 
Afrikaans suidelike noordkappernoordkaper  [details]
Dutch zuidkaper  [details]
English southern right whale  [details]
French baleine du Capbaleine austral  [details]
German Suedwal des stillen Ozeanssuedlicher Walfischsuedlicher GlattwalKapwal  [details]
Indonesian paus selatan  [details]
Japanese sebi kujira  [details]
Malagasy trozona marinetrozona mainty  [details]
Norwegian sorlig retthval  [details]
Portuguese baleia-franca-australbaleia verdadeira  [details]
Russian nastyaschiy kit  [details]
Spanish viejareithuelballena verdaderaballena franca austral  [details]
Swedish nordkapare [from synonym]  [details]
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