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WoRMS taxon details
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
AphiaID: 137092
AphiaID: 137092
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Mysticeti (Superfamily) > Balaenopteridae (Family) > Megaptera (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parent | Megaptera Gray, 1846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balaena allamack Gray, 1846 (synonym) Balaena atlanticus Hurdis, 1897 (synonym) Balaena boops Fabricius, 1780 (synonym) Balaena gibbosa Gray, 1843 (synonym) Balaena lalandii Fischer, 1829 (synonym) Balaena longimana Rudolphi, 1832 (synonym) Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, 1781 (basionym) Balaena sulcata antarctica Schlegel, 1841 (synonym) Balaenoptera antarctica Temminck, 1841 (p. 21, pl. 30) (synonym) Balaenoptera astrolabe Pucheran, 1843 (synonym) Balaenoptera australis Lesson, 1828 (synonym) Balaenoptera capensis A. Smith, 1834 (synonym) Balaenoptera leucopteron Lesson, 1842 (synonym) Balaenoptera syncondylus A. Mueller, 1863 (synonym) Kyphobalaena keporkak Van Beneden, 1868 (synonym) Megaptera americana Gray, 1846 (synonym) Megaptera antarctica Gray, 1846 (synonym) Megaptera australis Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym) Megaptera bellicosa Cope, 1871 (synonym) Megaptera boops Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym) Megaptera brasiliensis True, 1904 (synonym) Megaptera braziliensis Cope, 1867 (synonym) Megaptera burmeisteri Burmeister, 1866 (synonym) Megaptera gigas Cope, 1865 (synonym) Megaptera indica Gervais, 1883 (synonym) Megaptera kusira Trouessart, 1904 (misspelling) Megaptera kuzira Gray, 1850 (synonym) Megaptera lalandii Gray, 1864 (synonym) Megaptera longimana Gray, 1846 (synonym) Megaptera longimana morei Gray, 1866 (synonym) Megaptera longipinna Gray, 1846 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa Lahille, 1905 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa bellicosa Elliot, 1904 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa lalandii Tomilin, 1946 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa nodosa Tomilin, 1946 (synonym) Megaptera nodosa novaezealandiae Ivashin, 1958 (synonym) Megaptera novaezelandiae Gray, 1864 (synonym) Megaptera osphya Mead & Brownell, 2005 (misspelling) Megaptera osphyia Cope, 1865 (synonym) Megaptera poescop Gray, 1846 (synonym) Megaptera versabilis Cope, 1869 (synonym) Poescopia lalandii Gray, 1866 (synonym) Rorqualus antarcticus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym) Rorqualus australis Hamilton, 1837 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Borowski, G. H. (1781). Gemeinnüzzige[sic] Naturschichte des Tierreichs,.. G. L. Lange, Berlin and Stralsund. page(s): 2(1):21 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [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: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., 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: Clapham, P. J. and J. G. Mead. (1999). Megaptera novaeangliae. Mammalian Species 604:1--9. [details] additional source: Stacey, P. J. and P. W. Arnold. (1999). Orcaella brevirostris. Mammalian Species 616:1--8. [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Antarctica (Large Marine Ecosystem) [details] Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] Tanzania [details] World Oceans [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank Marine Life Information Network - UK To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: herring (Clupea harengus), sand lance (Ammodytes sp.) and other small fish, invertebrates (euphausiids) [details] Dimensions: Length: male 36-57 1/2' (11-17.5 m), female 36-62 1/2' (11-19 m), at birth 15'+ (4.6 m+) [details] Distribution: in all oceans [details] Distribution: Antarctica/Southern Ocean; East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details] Habitat: Inshore on feeding and calving grounds, but high seas in transit between them. [details] Holotype: None in existence. Name based on the "baleine de la Nouvelle Angleterre" of Brisson (1756). [details] IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Oceania humpback whale : Endangered (EN) [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Arabian Sea humpback whale : Endangered (EN) [details] Morphology: Distinguishing characteristics: colour in the northern hemisphere is dark with white belly and on flippers, but southern hemisphere whales have more white. Sensory knobs on head. Lifts tail when diving. Variably curved dorsal fin midback on a hump. "Knuckles" or bumps along tail stock of thin whales. Flippers may reach length of 4.5 m (15'). Individuals recognized by underside of flukes and body scars/markings. [details] Predators: Killer whale tooth marks evident on adults; calves probably taken. [details] Reproduction: Calving: January to March in Caribbean; Weaning: one year [details] Type locality: Coast of New England, U.S.A. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137092 on 2010-02-09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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