WoRMS taxon details
Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister, 1867
AphiaID: 231405
AphiaID: 231405
| 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) > Balaenoptera (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balaenoptera acutorostrata bonaerensis Deraniyagala, 1960 (synonym) Balaenoptera huttoni Gray, 1874 (synonym) Balaenoptera racovitzai Lahille, 1905 (synonym) Physalus antarcticus Hutton, 1874 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Burmeister, H. 1867. [Description of a new species Balaenoptera bonaerensis]. Actas Soc. Paleo., Buenos Aires, p. 24. [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: Burmeister, H. (1868). Preliminary description of a new species of finner whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). Proceedings of the Zoological Society [London], June 27, 1867:707-713. [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctica [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | carnivore [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1058 nucleotides; 549 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: circum-global southern hemisphere [details] Habitat: mostly inshore [details] Holotype: Complete skeleton in Museo Publico de Buenos Aires, Argentina [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: "dead, floating on the river Plata, near Belgrano, about ten miles form Buenos Ayres [Argentina]" (Burmeister, 1868) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231405 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister, 1867. 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=231405 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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