Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Eubalaena australis

Description

Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). In Bory de Saint-Vincent (ed.), Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, 2:161, pl.

TYPE LOCALITY: Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: antarctic to temperate waters; occasionally along the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered (included with E. glacialis); IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: antarctica, antipodarum, temminckii.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cummings (1985b). Included in glacialis by some recent authors.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 349, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Balaenidae
Genus
Eubalaena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Desmoulins
Species
australis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993