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Caperea marginata (pygmy right whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Balaena marginata was named by Gray (1846) [no type specimen listed in Gray 1846 ]. It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 399a, b, c, an other (baleen plates).

It was recombined as Neobalaena marginata by Gray (1870), Gray (1871), Gray (1872), Van Beneden (1872), Gray (1873), Hector (1875), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Oliver (1922); it was recombined as Caperea marginata by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Marx (2011), Geisler et al. (2011), Fordyce and Marx (2013), Tsai et al. (2014), Tsai and Fordyce (2015), Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray p. 32
1846Balaena marginata Gray p. 48
1850Balaena marginata Gray p. 14
1864Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray p. 202
1866Balaena marginata Gray p. 90
1866Caperea antipodarum Gray p. 101
1868Balaena marginata Gray p. 1
1868Caperea antipodarum Gray p. 1
1870Neobalaena marginata Gray p. 124
1871Neobalaena marginata Gray p. 40
1871Caperea antipodarum Gray p. 45
1872Neobalaena marginata Gray p. 155
1872Neobalaena marginata Van Beneden p. 410
1873Caperea antipodarum Gray p. 143
1873Neobalaena marginata Gray p. 143
1875Neobalaena marginata Hector p. 251
1904Neobalaena marginata Trouessart p. 786
1912Neobalaena marginata Turner p. 29
1922Neobalaena marginata Oliver p. 559
1934Balaena marginata Iredale and Troughton p. 56
1963Caperea marginata Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1966Caperea marginata Hershkovitz p. 184
1998Caperea marginata Rice p. 65
2005Caperea marginata Mead and Brownell p. 726
2006Caperea marginata Bouetel and Muizon p. 387
2008Caperea marginata Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Caperea marginata Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2011Caperea marginata Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2013Caperea marginata Fordyce and Marx p. 4
2014Caperea marginata Tsai et al. p. 86
2015Caperea marginata Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Caperea marginata Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2015Caperea marginata Tsai and Fordyce p. 1
2016Caperea marginata Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
—Chaeomysticeti()
subfamilyCetotheriidae()
subfamilyNeobalaeninae()
genusCaperea
speciesmarginata()

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.

Caperea marginata Gray 1846 [pygmy right whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray 1864 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquaticsubo
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Diet 2: suspension feedersubo
Reproduction: viviparouso
Created: 2005-03-06 14:20:41
Modified: 2005-03-06 16:34:40
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
Reference: Uhen 2004

Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Chile Caperea marginata (167975)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0New Zealand Caperea marginata (71935 71939)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Western Australia) Caperea marginata (167978)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Antarctica (Western Australia) Caperea marginata (167979)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (New South Wales) Caperea marginata (71936)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0South Africa Caperea marginata (71937 167977)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Argentina Caperea marginata (167976)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Tasmania) Caperea marginata (71934 71938 71940)