Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative combinations: Balaena australis, Eubalaena glacialis australis
Synonyms: Balaena antarctica Lesson 1828, Balaena antipodarum Gray 1843
Full reference: A. Desmoulins. 1822. Baleine. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle 155-165
Belongs to Eubalaena according to M. Bisconti et al. 2017
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2009, Churchill et al. 2012, Flower 1865, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1864, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Hershkovitz 1966, Mead and Brownell 2005, Oliver 1922, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1868
Sister taxa: Eubalaena glacialis, Eubalaena ianitrix, Eubalaena japonica, Eubalaena shinshuensis
Type specimens:
- Eubalaena australis: MNHM unnumbered specimen, a skeleton. Its type locality is Cape of Good Hope, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in South Africa.
- Balaena antarctica:
- Balaena antipodarum:
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Brazil (2), Chile (1), New Zealand (1), South Africa (2)
• Neogene of South Pacific (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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