Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Caperea Gray, 1864

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Genus Caperea Gray, 1864

  • Caperea Gray, J.E. 1864. On the Cetacea which have been observed in the seas surrounding the British Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 195-248 [202] [proposed as a subgenus of Balaena Linnaeus, 1758].
    Type species:
     Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray, 1864 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
  • Neobalaena Gray, J.E. 1870. Observations on the Whales described in the 'Ostéographie' &c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 6: 154-157 [155].
    Type species:
     Balaena marginata Gray, 1846 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [183] (for extralimital synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Southern circumglobal, temperate waters between 30ºS and 60ºS.


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

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Distribution References

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