Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Tasmacetus Oliver, 1937

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Genus Tasmacetus Oliver, 1937

  • Tasmacetus Oliver, W.R.B. 1937. Tasmacetus shepherdi: a new genus and species of beaked whale from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 371-381 [371].
    Type species:
     Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937 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.

 

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, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Southern cold temperate waters off Australia, New Zealand and South America only.


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 Eastern Province (12), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • New Zealand

Neotropical Region

Distribution References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259
  • Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.
  • Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.