Species Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)

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External Links

• Balaena australis Desmoulins, A. 1822. [No title]. In, Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. Dictionnarie Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Rey et Gravier Vol. 2 621 pp. [articles on fishes] [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP skeleton, Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

  Secondary source:

   Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [186] (for extralimital synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern circumglobal between 13º and 60ºS.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, migratory, oceanic, pelagic, predator.

 

General References

Aitken, P.F. 1971. Whales from the coast of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 95: 95-103

Anon. 1986. Right Whales: past and present status. Rept. Int. Whal. Comm. Special Issue 10. 289 pp.

Bannister, J.L. 1985. Southern right (Eubalaena australis) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales off Western Australia: some recent aerial survey work. pp. 105-113 in Ling, J.K. & Bryden, M.M. (eds). Studies of sea mammals in south latitudes. Adelaide : South Australian Museum 132 pp.

Bannister, J.L. 1986. Southern Right Whales: Status off Australia from 20th Century 'incidental' sightings and aerial survey. pp. 153–158 in, Rept. Int. Whal. Comm. Special Issue 10. 289 pp.

Bannister, J.L. 1990. Southern right whales off Western Australia. Reports of the International Whaling Commission 12(special issue): 279-288

Bannister, J.L. 2001. Status of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue 2: 103-110

Bannister, J.L., Kemper, C.M. & Warneke, R.M. 1996. The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 242 pp.

Burnell, A.F., Burnell, S.R. & Tago, M. 1991. Observations on an apparent mating sequence in three southern right whales, Eubalaena australis (Cetacea: Balaenidae). Australian Mammalogy 14: 33-34

Burnell, S.R. 2001. Aspects of the reproductive biology, movments and site fidelity of right whales off Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue 2: 89-102

Burnell, S.R. & Bryden, M.M. 1997. Coastal residence periods and reproductive timing in southern right whales, Eubalaena australis. Journal of Zoology, London 241: 613-621

Cummings, W.C. 1985. Right whales Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) and Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822). pp. 275-304 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 3. The sirenians and baleen whales. London : Academic Press 362 pp.

Dawbin, W.H. 1986. Right whales caught in waters around south-eastern Australia and New Zealand during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reports of the International Whaling Commission 10(special issue): 261-267

Gaskin, D.E. 1972. Whales, Dolphins and Seals, with Special Reference to the New Zealand Region. London : Heinemann 200 pp.

Guiler, E.R. 1978. Whale strandings in Tasmania since 1945 with notes on some seal reports. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 112: 189-213

Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.

Warneke, R.M. 1983. Whale stranding — accident or design. Australian Natural History 21: 43-47

Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Southern Right Whale)

 

History of changes

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