Genus Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804

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Genus Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804

Balaenoptera Lacépède, B.G.É. 1804. Histoire Naturelle des Cétacées.dediée à Anne-Caroline La Cepède: par le Citoyen La Cepède. Paris : Chez Plassan, Imprimeur-Libraire xxxiii 329 pp. [114].
Type species:
Balaenoptera gibbar Lacépède, 1804 by monotypy.
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 [151] (for extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), 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 Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Australian Antarctic Territory
Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)
Subantarctic Islands
- Crozet Islands
- Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
- 200 mile fishing zone: W oceanic
- Western Australia: SW coast, SW coastal

Neotropical Region

Argentina

Distribution References

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

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
11-Jun-2024	11-Jun-2024	MOVED
11-Jun-2024	11-Jun-2024	MOVED
16-Dec-2010	19-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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