Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846) 
AphiaID: 231424

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Mysticeti > Neobalaenidae > Caperea

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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans dwergnoordkapper  [details] Dutch dwergvalvis  [details] English pygmy right whale  [details] English pygmy whale  [details] French baleine franche naine  [details] French baleine franche pigmee  [details] French baleine pygmée  [details] German Zwergglattwal  [details] Japanese kosemi kujira  [details] Norwegian dvergretthval  [details] Portuguese baleia verdadeira ana  [details] Russian gladkyi kit  [details] Spanish ballena franca pygmea  [details]
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]
Image		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
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231424
Taxonomic Edit 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. (2013). Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846). 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=231424 on 2013-06-19