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Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846) 
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: 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: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch dwergvalvis  [details]
English pygmy right whale  [details]
French baleine franche naine  [details]
French baleine pygmée  [details]
German Zwergglattwal  [details]
Japanese kosemi kujira  [details]
Norwegian dvergretthval  [details]
Spanish ballena franca pygmea  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Antarctica (Large Marine Ecosystem) [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
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]
Image 
Pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata)
Pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata)
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 00:59:18
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history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231424 on 2010-09-02
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