Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Balaena allamack Gray, 1846, Balaena atlanticus Hurdis, 1897, Balaena boops Fabricius, 1780, Balaena gibbosa Gray, 1843, Balaena lalandii Fischer, 1829, Balaena longimana Rudolphi, 1832, Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789, Balaena novaeangliae Borowski, 1781, Balaena sulcata antarctica Schlegel, 1841, Balaenoptera antarctica Temminck, 1841, Balaenoptera astrolabe Pucheran, 1843, Balaenoptera australis Lesson, 1828, Balaenoptera capensis A. Smith, 1834, Balaenoptera leucopteron Lesson, 1842, Balaenoptera syncondylus A. Mueller, 1863, Kyphobalaena keporkak Van Beneden, 1868, Megaptera americana Gray, 1846, Megaptera antarctica Gray, 1846, Megaptera bellicosa Cope, 1871, Megaptera boops Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880, Megaptera brasiliensis True, 1904, Megaptera braziliensis Cope, 1867, Megaptera burmeisteri Burmeister, 1866, Megaptera gigas Cope, 1865, Megaptera indica Gervais, 1883, Megaptera kusira Trouessart, 1904, Megaptera lalandii Gray, 1864, Megaptera longimana Gray, 1846, Megaptera longimana morei Gray, 1866, Megaptera longipinna Gray, 1846, Megaptera nodosa Bonnaterre, 1789, Megaptera nodosa Lahille, 1905, Megaptera nodosa bellicosa Elliot, 1904, Megaptera nodosa lalandii Tomilin, 1946, Megaptera nodosa nodosa Tomilin, 1946, Megaptera nodosa novaezealandiae Ivashin, 1958, Megaptera novaezelandiae Gray, 1864, Megaptera osphya Mead & Brownell, 2005, Megaptera osphyia Cope, 1865, Megaptera poescop Gray, 1846, Megaptera versabilis Cope, 1869, Poescopia lalandii Gray, 1866, Rorqualus antarcticus F. Cuvier, 1836, Rorqualus australis Hamilton, 1837 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Migrant

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