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Eubalaena australis (southern right whale)
Taxonomy
Balaena australis was named by Desmoulins (1822). It is extant. Its type specimen is MNHM unnumbered specimen, a skeleton. Its type locality is Cape of Good Hope, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in South Africa.
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena japonica by Van Beneden and Gervais (1868); it was recombined as Eubalaena glacialis australis by Hershkovitz (1966); it was recombined as Eubalaena australis by Gray (1864), Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Scott (1873), Gondar (1966), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Bisconti (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Bisconti (2009), Churchill et al. (2012), Bisconti et al. (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena japonica by Van Beneden and Gervais (1868); it was recombined as Eubalaena glacialis australis by Hershkovitz (1966); it was recombined as Eubalaena australis by Gray (1864), Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Scott (1873), Gondar (1966), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Bisconti (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Bisconti (2009), Churchill et al. (2012), Bisconti et al. (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1822 | Balaena australis Desmoulins p. 161 |
| 1828 | Balaena antarctica Lesson p. 391 |
| 1843 | Balaena antipodarum Gray |
| 1846 | Balaena australis Gray p. 15 |
| 1850 | Balaena australis Gray p. 15 |
| 1850 | Balaena antarctica Gray p. 18 |
| 1864 | Eubalaena australis Gray p. 202 |
| 1865 | Eubalaena australis Flower p. 394 |
| 1866 | Eubalaena australis Gray p. 91 |
| 1868 | Eubalaena australis Gray p. 1 |
| 1871 | Eubalaena australis Gray p. 43 |
| 1873 | Eubalaena australis Scott p. 136 |
| 1889 | Balaena australis Ameghino p. 888 |
| 1904 | Balaena australis Trouessart p. 787 |
| 1912 | Balaena australis Turner p. 29 |
| 1922 | Balaena australis Oliver p. 558 |
| 1966 | Eubalaena australis Gondar p. 145 |
| 1966 | Eubalaena glacialis australis Hershkovitz p. 186 |
| 1999 | Eubalaena australis Bergqvist et al. p. 31 |
| 2003 | Eubalaena australis Bisconti p. 34 |
| 2005 | Eubalaena australis Mead and Brownell p. 723 |
| 2008 | Eubalaena australis Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2009 | Eubalaena australis Bisconti p. 153 |
| 2012 | Eubalaena australis Churchill et al. p. 19 |
| 2017 | Eubalaena australis Bisconti et al. p. 11 |
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Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 [southern right whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena antarctica Lesson 1828 [synonym], Balaena antipodarum Gray 1843 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Neogene | South Pacific | Balaena australis (99587) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil | Eubalaena sp. (54181) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grand do Sul) | Eubalaena australis (211308) | |
| Holocene | Chile | Eubalaena australis (167956) | |
| Holocene | Antarctica | Eubalaena australis (167958) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Balaena australis (type locality: 86897) Eubalaena australis (79916) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Eubalaena australis (167957) |