Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Mysticeti > Family Balaenidae > Genus Eubalaena

Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eubalaena*	Gray, 1864	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Balaena glacialis*	Mueller, 1776	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: noordkaper; suidelike noordkapper

Dutch: zuidkaper

English: southern right whale sources: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species Identification Guide. Rome. 312 p.

French: baleine austral; baleine du Cap

German: Kapwal; suedlicher Glattwal; suedlicher Walfisch; Suedwal des stillen Ozeans

Indonesian: paus selatan

Japanese: sebi kujira

Malagasi: trozona mainty; trozona marine

Norwegian: sorlig retthval

Portuguese: baleia verdadeira; baleia-franca-austral

Russian: nastyaschiy kit

Spanish, Castillian: ballena franca austral; ballena verdadera; reithuel; vieja

Literature

original description	Desmoulins, A. (1822). Baleine:155-160 in Dictionaire classique d'Histoire naturelle. 2. Paris, Rey et Gravier.
basis of record	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	Robineau, 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.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
GenBank (463 nucleotides; 300 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220222