Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Berardius Duvernoy, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

Genus Berardius Duvernoy, 1851

  • Berardius Duvernoy, G.L. 1851. Mémoire sur les caractères ostéologiques des genres nouveaux ou des espèces nouvelle de cétacés vivants ou fossiles, dont les squelettes entiers, ou les têtes seulement, sont conservés dans les galéries d'anatomie comparée du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris XV Zool. 1851: 5-71 [52].
    Type species:
     Berardius arnuxii Duvernoy, 1851 by original designation.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259; Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [122]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Antitropical waters, but absent from North Atlantic.


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

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • Tasmania: Tas. coast

Distribution References

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