WoRMS taxon details
Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846)
AphiaID: 231424
AphiaID: 231424
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Mysticeti (Superfamily) > Neobalaenidae (Family) > Caperea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Caperea Gray, 1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balaena antipodarum Gray, 1864 (synonym) Balaena marginata Gray, 1846 (synonym) Caperea antipodarum Gray, 1866 (synonym) Neobalaena marginata Gray, 1870 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1(Mammalia):48, pl. 1, fig. 1 (baleen). [details] basis of record: 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 | Antarctica [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 84 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: coastal and oceanic [details] Holotype: Three baleen plates, British Museum (Natural History), nos. 339a, b and c; presented by Mr. J. Warwick. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Western Australia [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231424 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846). 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=231424 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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