IRMNG - Megaptera Gray, 1846

IRMNG taxon details

Megaptera Gray, 1846

IRMNG_ID

1319463 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1319463)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864

Synonymised names

Cyphobalaena Marschall, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)

Kyphobalaena Eschricht, 1849 · unaccepted (synonym)

Megapteron Gray, 1846 · unaccepted

Perqualus Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)

Poescopia Gray, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)

Poeskopia Gervais, 1871 · unaccepted

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Species Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera americana Gray, 1846 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera antarctica Gray, 1846 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera australis Iredale & Troughton, 1934 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera bellicosa Cope, 1871 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera boops Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera brasiliensis True, 1904 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera braziliensis Cope, 1867 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera burmeisteri Burmeister, 1866 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera gigas Cope, 1865 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera indica Gervais, 1883 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera kusira Trouessart, 1904 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera kuzira Gray, 1850 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera lalandii Gray, 1864 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera longimana Gray, 1846 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera longipinna Gray, 1846 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera nodosa Lahille, 1905 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera novaezelandiae Gray, 1864 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera osphya Mead & Brownell, 2005 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera osphyia Cope, 1865 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera poescop Gray, 1846 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Species Megaptera versabilis Cope, 1869 accepted as Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Zool. "Ereb. Terr. " (Cetac.), 16 (as Megapteron p. 51). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Megaptera Gray, 1846. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1319463 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

[taxonomic tree]

original description Zool. "Ereb. Terr. " (Cetac.), 16 (as Megapteron p. 51). [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560. [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Kyphobalaena Eschricht, 1849) K. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skr. Kjöbenhavn, [5] 1
page(s): 108 [details]

original description (of Poeskopia Gervais, 1871) N. Arch. Mus. Pairs '7
page(s): 38 [details]

original description (of Megapteron Gray, 1846) Zool. "Ereb. Terr. " (Cetac.), 16 (as Megaptera; also as Megapteron p. 51). [details]

original description (of Poescopia Gray, 1864) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864
page(s): 207 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006). Marine, extant (?) + fossil: Tertiary to Recent (Sepkoski 2002) [details]

Type species as cited Megaptera longipinna Gray, 1846 (= Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, 1781). [details]

To WoRMS (from synonym Kyphobalaena Eschricht, 1849)
To WoRMS
To WoRMS (from synonym Poescopia Gray, 1864)
To WoRMS (from synonym Cyphobalaena Marschall, 1873)
To WoRMS (from synonym Perqualus Gray, 1846)