Species Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Humpback Whale
- Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, G.H. 1781. Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs, darinnen die merkwurdigsten und nützlichsten Thiere in systemat..... Berlin & Stralsund : Lange Vol. 2. [21].
Type data:
Status unknown, (none in existence), coast of New England, USA.Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259. - Balaena boops Fabricius, O. 1780. Fauna Groenlandica. Systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quad Nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque Synonyma Auctorum plurium, Descriptionem, Locum, Victum, Generationem, Mores, Usum, Capturamque singuli, pront detegendi Occasio fuit, maximaque Parte secundum proprias Observationes. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber 452 pp., 1 pl. [36] [junior homonym of Balaena boops Linnaeus, 1758].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, N Atlantic (Greenland).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 [177] (see also for synonyms based on non-Australian material)
Generic Combinations
- Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Circumglobal.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), 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
Baker, C.S., Perry, A., Bannister, J.L. et al. 1993. Abundant mitochondrial DNA variation and world-wide population structure in humpback whales. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura 90: 8239-8243
Baker, C.S., Slade, R.W., Bannister, J.L. et al. 1994. Hierarchical structure of mitochondrial DNA gene flow among humpback whales Megaloptera novaeangliae, world-wide whales. Molecular Ecology 3: 313-328
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., Kirkwood, G.P. & Wayte, S.E. 1991. Increase in humpback whales off Western Australia. Reports of the International Whaling Commission 41: 461-465
Bannister, J.L. & Hedley, S.L. 2001. Southern Hemisphere Group IV humpback whales: their status from recent aerial survey. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47: 587-598
Brown, M. & Corkeron, P. 1995. Pod characteristics of migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the east Australian coast. Behaviour 132: 163-180
Brown, M.R., Corkeron, P.J., Hale, P.T., Schultz, K.W. & Bryden, M.M. 1995. Evidence for a sex-segregated migration in the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 259: 229
Bryden, M.M. 1978. Whales and whaling in Queensland waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89: v-xviii
Bryden, M.M., Kirkwood, G.P. & Slade, R.W. 1990. Humpback whales, Area V. An increase in numbers off Australia's east coast. pp. 271-277 in Kerry, K.R. & Hempel, G. (eds). Antarctic Ecosystems. Ecological change and conservation. Berlin : Springer Verlag.
Burton, C.L.K. 1991. Sighting analysis and photo-identification of humpback whales off Western Australia, 1989. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 259-270
Cato, D.H. 1991. Songs of humpback whales: the Australian perspective. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 277-290
Chittleborough, R.G. 1965. Dynamics of two populations of the Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 16: 33-128
Clapham, P.J. 1996. The social and reproductive biology of humpback whales: An ecological perspective. Mammal Review 26: 27-49
Corkeron, P.J. 1995. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hervy Bay, Queensland: Behaviour and responses to whale-watching vessels. Canadian Journal of Zoology 73: 1290-1299
Corkeron, P.J., Brown, M., Slade, R.W. & Bryden, M.M. 1994. Humpback whales, Megaloptera novaeangliae (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae), in Hervy Bay, Queensland. Wildlife Research 21: 293-305
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Dawbin, W.H. 1997. Temporal segregation of humpback whales during migration in Southern Hemisphere waters. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42: 105-138
Dawbin, W.H. & Eyre, E.J. 1991. Humpback whale songs along the coast of Western Australia and some comparison with east coast songs. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 249-254
Dixon, J.M. 1982. The Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781), a first stranding for Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 99: 24-27
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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
Mednis, A. 1991. An acoustic analysis of the 1988 song of the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, off eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 323-332
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Paterson, R., Paterson, P. & Cato, D.H. 2004. Continued increase in east Australian humpback whales in 2001, 2002. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 712
Paterson, R. & Paterson, P. 1984. A study of the past and present status of humpback whales in east Australian waters. Biological Conservation 29: 321-343
Paterson, R. & Paterson, P. 1989. The status of the recovering stocks of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae in east Australian waters. Biological Conservation 47: 33-48
Paterson, R.A. 1994. Unusual humpback whale sightings at Cape Morton. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 224
Pirzi, R. & Anderson, G.R.V. 1997. Australia. Progress report on cetacean research, May 1995 to May 1996. In, Anon. (ed.). Forty-seventh Report of the International Whaling Commission. Cambridge : International Whaling Commission 1032 pp.
Quayle, C.J. 1991. A dissection of the larynx of a humpback whale calf with a review of its functional morphology. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 343-350
Rosenbaum, H.C., Clapham, P.J., Allen, J. et al. 1995. Geographic variation in ventral fluke pigmentation of humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae populations worldwide. Marine Ecology Progress Series 124: 1-3
Valsecchi, E., Palsboll, P., Hale, P. et al. 1997. Microsatellite genetic distances between oceanic populations of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 14: 355-362
Warneke, R.M. 1983. Whale stranding — accident or design. Australian Natural History 21: 43-47
Winn, H.E. & Reichley, N.E. 1985. Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781). pp. 241-273 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 3. The sirenians and baleen whales. London : Academic Press 362 pp.
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Humpback Whale)
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