Type locality Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220222 on 2025-07-16
basis of recordJefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.[details]
Ecology
ecology sourceLooby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online athttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4[details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)Reyes, J. (2009). Ballenas, delfines y otros cetáceos del Perú. Una fuente de información. <em>Lima- Perú. Squema-Ediciones.</em> 160 pp.[details]
additional sourcePerrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceRobineau, 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 sourceMead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online athttp://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/[details]
additional sourceHershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246[details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
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]