Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822) 
AphiaID: 220222

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Balaenidae > Eubalaena

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Eubalaena Gray, 1864
Synonymised taxa		Balaena antarctica Lesson, 1828 (synonym) Balaena antipodum Gray, 1843 (synonym) Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 (synonym) Balaena capensis Gray, 1868 (synonym) Balaena glacialis Mueller, 1776 (synonym) Balaena glacialis australis Scheffer & Rice, 1963 (synonym) Balaena hectori Gray, 1874 (synonym) Balaena mysticetus antarcticus Schlegel, 1841 (synonym) Baloena australis (Synonym) Eubalaena capensis Gray, 1866 (synonym) Eubalaena glacialis australis Tomilin, 1962 (synonym) Halibalaena britannica Gray, 1873 (synonym) Hunterus temminckii Gray, 1864 (synonym) Macleayius australiensis Gray, 1865 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Desmoulins, A. (1822). Baleine:155-160 in Dictionaire classique d'Histoire naturelle. 2. Paris, Rey et Gravier. 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., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [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. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans noordkaper  [details] Afrikaans suidelike noordkapper  [details] Dutch zuidkaper  [details] English southern right whale  [details] French baleine austral  [details] French baleine du Cap  [details] German Kapwal  [details] German suedlicher Glattwal  [details] German suedlicher Walfisch  [details] German Suedwal des stillen Ozeans  [details] Indonesian paus selatan  [details] Japanese sebi kujira  [details] Malagasy trozona mainty  [details] Malagasy trozona marine  [details] Norwegian sorlig retthval  [details] Portuguese baleia verdadeira  [details] Portuguese baleia-franca-austral  [details] Russian nastyaschiy kit  [details] Spanish ballena franca austral  [details] Spanish ballena verdadera  [details] Spanish reithuel  [details] Spanish vieja  [details] Swedish nordkapare (from synonym)  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] World Oceans [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (463 nucleotides; 300 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		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]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 10 & 11) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:31:31 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 01 & 02) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:08:37 Eubalaena australis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:10:27 Eubalaena australis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:10:37 Eubalaena australis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:10:48 Megaptera novaeangliae & Eubalaena australis added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:10:58 [image from synonym] Balaena australis added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 17:31:57 Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) added on 2009-04-23 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 00:45:45 Eubalaena australis added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:11:12 Eubalaena australis added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:11:23 Eubalaena australis added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:11:37 Eubalaena australis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2012-08-31 18:11:47
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220222
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-05-01 08:58:20Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2007-07-16 21:05:52Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2013-05-20