Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818) 
AphiaID: 254974

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 aleoutiensis Van Beneden, 1865 (synonym) Balaena alutiensis Beddard, 1900 (synonym) Balaena antarctica Temminck, 1840 or 1841 (synonym) Balaena australis Flower, 1885 (synonym) Balaena culammak Gray, 1870 (synonym) Balaena cullamach Cope, 1868 (synonym) Balaena cullamacha Beddard, 1900 (synonym) Balaena japonica Lacépède, 1804 (basionym) Balaena kuliomoch Chamisso, 1825 (synonym) Balaena lunulata Lacépède, 1818 (synonym) Balaena sieboldii Gray, 1864 (synonym) Balaenoptera antarctica Temminck, 1841 (lapsus for Balaena (not p. 21, pl. 30 (= Megaptera novaeangliae)) Eubalaena glacialis japonica Imaizumi, 1958 (synonym) Eubalaena glacialis sieboldii Tomilin, 1957 (synonym) Eubalaena sieboldii Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Lacépède, B. G. E. (1818). Sur les cétacées de mers voisines du Japon. Mem. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris. 4. page(s): 469, 473 [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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Aleut cullamach  [details] Aleut kuliomoch  [details] English black right whale  [details] English North Pacific right whale  [details] English northwest whale  [details] English Pacific right whale  [details] French baleine du Japon  [details] French baleine japonaise  [details] Georgian guliogadokh  [details] Georgian kuliomokh  [details] German Japanwal  [details] German Nordwestwal  [details] Japanese ko kujira  [details] Japanese sebi kujira  [details] Japanese semi kujira  [details] Korean bubgang-ginsuyeom-gorae  [details] Russian nastoiashchii kit  [details] Russian yaponskii kit  [details]
Environment		marine
Links		To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 52 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: temperate and subpolar waters of North Pacific [details] Holotype: Description based on a colored figure by a Japanese artist. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Northeast Pacific right whale : Critically Endangered (CR) [details] Type locality: Japan [details]
Images		North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:13:38 North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:24:10
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254974
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-22 19:25:59Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818). 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=254974 on 2013-05-22