Megaptera novaeangliae
Description
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) —Humpback Whale
Balaena novae angliae Borowski, 1781 p.21; Type locality- New England Coast, US.
Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789 p.5; Type locality- New England Coast, US.
Megaptera kuzira Gray, 1850 p.30; Type locality- Japan.
Megaptera versabilis Cope, 1869 p.15; Type locality- North Pacific.
Megaptera nodosa: Kuroda, 1938 p.12; Won, 1968 p.243.
Megaptera novaeangliae: Won, 1958 p.434; Won, 1967 p.80; Kim et al, 2000 p.62; Kim, 2004 p.223.
Megaptera nodosa nodosa: Won, 1968 p.244.
Megaptera novaeangliae kuzira: Jackson et al., 2014 p.8 (North Pacific).
Range: Humpback whales inhabit coastal waters. The first record of M. novaeangliae in Korea occurred in 1911 in the waters off Ulsan (Andrews 1916). During the Japanese invasion (1910–1945), fishermen caught 128 humpback whales in the Korean waters; since 1958, only 13 were captured (Park 1987). More recently, observations of humpback whales have regularly been made in waters southeast of Korea (Kim 2004; Fig. 80).
Remarks: Previously, North Korea and South Korea had different scientific names for this species, M. nodosa and M. novaeangliae, respectively (Won 1967, 1968). A recent study based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA resulted in the recognition of the single species M. novaeangliae and three subspecies: M. n. kuzira (Gray, 1850) for the North Pacific Ocean (including Korea), M. n. novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) for the North Atlantic Ocean and M. n. australis (Lesson, 1828) for the Southern Hemisphere (Jackson et al. 2014). Divergence time estimates indicated that the North Pacific Ocean subspecies was the earliest offshoot, rising ~ 175,000 years ago (Jackson et al. 2014).
Conservation status: Megaptera novaeangliae has been a Protected Marine Species in South Korea since 2007. The Red Data Book of North Korea classified this species as ‘Vulnerable’ (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002). CITES lists this species on Appendix I.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Megaptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Borowski
- Species
- novaeangliae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Borowski, G. H. (1781) Gemeinnutzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs mit Abbildungen. Fol. 2. Berlin, 139 pp. [in German]
- Bonnaterre, P. J. (1789) Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Chez Panckoucke, Labraire, Paris, 215 pp. [in French]
- Gray, J. E. (1850) Catalogue of the Specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum Part I. Cetacea. The Trustees, British Museum, London, 50 pp.
- Cope, E. D. (1869) On the cetaceans of the western Coast of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 21, 13 - 63.
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
- Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Jackson, J. A., Steel, D. J., Beerli, P., Congdon, B. C., Olavarria, C., Leslie, M. S., Pomilla, C., Rosenbaum, H. & Baker, C. S. (2014) Global diversity and oceanic divergence of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences, 281, 2013 - 3222. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rspb. 2013.3222
- Andrews, R. C. (1916) Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 356 pp.
- Park, G. B. (1987) Whaling history of Korea. Taehwa Press, Seoul, Korea, 594 pp. [in Korean]
- Lesson, R. P. (1828) Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des mammiferes et des oiseaux decoverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours. Fol. 10. Oiseaux et mammiferes. Chez Baudouin freres, Paris, 456 pp. [in French]
- MAB National Committee of DPR Korea (2002) Red Data Book of DPRK (Animal). Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pyongyang, 316 pp.