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Eubalaena (right whale)
Taxonomy
Eubalaena was named by Gray (1864) [Sepkoski's age data: Q Plei R]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Ekdale et al. (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena by Brandt (1873).
It was assigned to Balaeninae by Flower (1867); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Balaenidae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Gill (1871), Brandt (1872), Scott (1873), Palmer (1904), Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Gondar (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Bisconti (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2009), Ekdale et al. (2011), Churchill et al. (2012), Boessenecker (2013), Sorbini et al. (2014), Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Bisconti et al. (2017), Field et al. (2017), Tsai and Chang (2019), Govender and Marx (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena by Brandt (1873).
It was assigned to Balaeninae by Flower (1867); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Balaenidae by Gray (1864), Flower (1865), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Gill (1871), Brandt (1872), Scott (1873), Palmer (1904), Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Gondar (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Bisconti (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Steeman (2007), Bisconti (2009), Ekdale et al. (2011), Churchill et al. (2012), Boessenecker (2013), Sorbini et al. (2014), Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Bisconti et al. (2017), Field et al. (2017), Tsai and Chang (2019), Govender and Marx (2023).
Species
E. australis (syn. Balaena antipodarum, Balaena antarctica), E. glacialis (syn. Halibalaena britannica, Balaena islandica, Macleayius australiensis, Balaena nordcaper, Balaena aleoutiensis, Balaena biscayensis, E. sieboldii, Balaena tarentina, Balaena swedenborgi, Hunterius temminckii), E. ianitrix, E. japonica (syn. Balaena cullamach), E. shinshuensis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1864 | Hunterius Flower |
| 1864 | Eubalaena Gray |
| 1864 | Macleayius Gray |
| 1864 | Eubalaena Gray p. 201 |
| 1865 | Eubalaena Flower p. 390 |
| 1866 | Eubalaena Gray p. 91 |
| 1866 | Hunterius Gray p. 96 |
| 1866 | Macleayius Gray p. 103 |
| 1867 | Eubalaena Flower p. 115 |
| 1868 | Eubalaena Gray p. 1 |
| 1868 | Hunterius Gray p. 1 |
| 1868 | Macleayius Gray p. 1 |
| 1869 | Hunterius Scammon and Cope p. 14 |
| 1871 | Eubalaena Gill p. 126 |
| 1871 | Hunterius Gill p. 126 |
| 1871 | Eubalaena Gray p. 42 |
| 1871 | Hunterius Gray p. 44 |
| 1871 | Macleayius Gray p. 45 |
| 1872 | Eubalaena Brandt p. 119 |
| 1872 | Hunterius Brandt p. 119 |
| 1872 | Macleayius Brandt p. 119 |
| 1873 | Halibalaena Gray p. 140 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 1873 | Eubalaena Scott p. 134 |
| 1904 | Eubalaena Palmer p. 272 |
| 1904 | Macleayius Palmer p. 391 |
| 1923 | Eubalaena Miller p. 40 |
| 1928 | Eubalaena Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1945 | Eubalaena Simpson p. 105 |
| 1951 | Eubalaena Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 717 |
| 1952 | Eubalaena Sherman p. 99 |
| 1966 | Eubalaena Gondar p. 145 |
| 1977 | Eubalaena Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
| 1987 | Eubalaena Pilleri p. 77 |
| 1999 | Eubalaena Bergqvist et al. p. 31 |
| 2002 | Eubalaena Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Eubalaena Bisconti p. 34 |
| 2005 | Eubalaena Mead and Brownell p. 723 |
| 2006 | Eubalaena Bouetel and Muizon p. 387 |
| 2007 | Eubalaena Steeman p. 880 |
| 2009 | Eubalaena Bisconti p. 153 |
| 2011 | Eubalaena Ekdale et al. p. 39 |
| 2012 | Eubalaena Churchill et al. p. 19 |
| 2013 | Eubalaena Boessenecker p. 834 |
| 2014 | Eubalaena Sorbini et al. p. 91 |
| 2015 | Eubalaena Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Eubalaena Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2015 | Eubalaena Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2016 | Eubalaena Marx et al. p. 108 |
| 2017 | Eubalaena Bisconti et al. p. 11 |
| 2017 | Eubalaena Field et al. |
| 2019 | Eubalaena Tsai and Chang |
| 2023 | Eubalaena Govender and Marx p. 13 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Eubalaena Gray 1864 [right whale]
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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]
Eubalaena glacialis Muller 1776 [North Atlantic right whale]
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†Balaena glacialis lamanoni Cuvier 1836
Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Tomlin 1957
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Invalid names: Balaena cisarctica Cope 1865 [synonym], Balaena mediterranea Gray 1870 [synonym], Balaena mysticetus angulata Gray 1866 [synonym], Macleayius britannicus Gray 1870 [synonym]
Invalid names: Balaena aleoutiensis Van Beneden 1866 [synonym], Balaena biscayensis Eschricht 1860 [synonym], Balaena islandica Brisson 1762 [synonym], Balaena nordcaper Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Balaena swedenborgi Lilljeborg 1868 [synonym], Balaena tarentina Capellini 1877 [synonym], Eubalaena sieboldii Gray 1864 [synonym], Halibalaena britannica Gray 1870 [synonym], Hunterius temminckii Gray 1864 [synonym], Macleayius australiensis Gray 1866 [synonym]
†Eubalaena ianitrix Bisconti et al. 2017
†Eubalaena shinshuensis Kimura et al. 2007
Invalid names: Halibalaena Gray 1873 [synonym], Hunterius Flower 1864 [synonym], Macleayius Gray 1864 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Messinian to the top of the Holocene or 7.24600 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Collections (48 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Neogene | South Pacific | Balaena australis (99587) | |
| Middle Miocene - Pliocene | South Africa | Eubalaena sp. (77208) | |
| Messinian | USA (California) | Eubalaena sp. 1 (117470) | |
| Messinian | Japan (Nagano) | Cetacea indet. (73989) | |
| Zanclean | Iceland | Odontoceti indet. (120144) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy | Eubalaena sp. (96734) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Eubalaena sp. 2 (66819) | |
| Piacenzian | Belgium (Antwerpen) | Balaena belgica (66958) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy (Florence) | Physeter macrocephalus (45480) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Eubalaena sp. (100408) | |
| Piacenzian | Belgium | Balaena belgica (184445) | |
| Villafranchian | Italy (Pisa) | Eubalaena sp. (44089) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Balaena biscayensis (77750) Eubalaena glacialis (58420) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grand do Sul) | Eubalaena sp. (223843) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Taiwan | Eubalaena sp. (73686) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grand do Sul) | Eubalaena australis (211308) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Denmark | Balaena glacialis (76051) Eubalaena glacialis (159731) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Balaena biscayensis (238895) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil | Eubalaena sp. (54181) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Balaena australis (86897) Eubalaena australis (79916) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Labrador) | Eubalaena glacialis (224252) | |
| Holocene | Morocco | Eubalaena glaciali (211827) | |
| Holocene | USA (New Jersey) | Eubalaena glacialis (167959 197275) | |
| Holocene | Spain | Cetacea indet. (196911) | |
| Holocene | Japan (Akita) | Eubalaena glacialis (56380) | |
| Holocene | Germany | Eubalaena glacialis (159717) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Eubalaena glacialis (238445) | |
| Holocene | France | Cetacea indet. (196916) | |
| Holocene | Chile | Eubalaena australis (167956) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Eubalaena australis (167957) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (England) | Balaena biscayensis (238907 238924) Eubalaena glacialis (238915 238928) | |
| Holocene | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Eubalaena sp. (54134) | |
| Holocene | Antarctica | Eubalaena australis (167958) | |
| Holocene | USA (Alaska) | Eubalaena japonica (167960) | |
| Holocene | Norway | Balaena glacialis (86928) Eubalaena glacialis (237892 237895) | |
| Holocene | Japan | Balaena glacialis (82088) | |
| Holocene | Denmark | Eubalaena glacialis (159706 159715 159724) |