Megaptera Gray, 1846
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Volume 1: Mammalia and Birds.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Balaenopteridae
- genus
- Megaptera
Name
- Synonyms
- Cyphobalaena Marschall, 1873
- Kyphobalaena Eschricht, 1849
- Megapteron Gray, 1846
- Perqualus Gray, 1846
- Poescopia Gray, 1864
- Poeskopia Gervais, 1871
- Homonyms
- Megaptera Gray, 1846
- Megaptera Meek & Worthen, 1868
- Common names
- Humpback Whale in English
- Humpback Whales in English
- Humpback Whales in English
- Humpback whale in language.
- humpback whale in English
- humpback whales in English
- humpback whales in English
Bibliographic References
- Aphia 2006
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
- Bjärvall & Ullström (2005) Däggdjur. Alla europas arter i text och bild.
- Clapham, Phillip J., and James J. Mead, 1999: Megaptera novaeangliae. Mammalian Species, no. 604. 1-9.
- Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Volume 1: Mammalia and Birds.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1. 723-743.
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Rice, Dale W., 1998: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4. ix + 231.
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)
- Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds., 2018: null. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd edition. xxxi + 1157.
- Zool. "Ereb. Terr. " (Cetac.), 16 (as Megapteron p. 51).
- van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 375-376