Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Balaenidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 67679

Alternative combinations: Balaena australis, Eubalaena glacialis australis

Synonyms: Balaena antarctica Lesson 1828 (no. 70683), Balaena antipodarum Gray 1843 (no. 129207)

Full reference: A. Desmoulins. 1822. Baleine. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle 155-165

Belongs to Eubalaena according to M. Bisconti et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Eubalaena glacialis, Eubalaena ianitrix, Eubalaena japonica, Eubalaena shinshuensis

Type specimens:

• Eubalaena australis: MNHM unnumbered specimen, a skeleton. Its type locality is Cape of Good Hope, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in South Africa.
• Balaena antarctica:
• Balaena antipodarum:

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder