Caperea marginata

– Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CETACEA

Family:

NEOBALAENIDAE

Scientific Name:

Caperea marginata

Species Authority:

(Gray, 1846)

Common Name/s:

English	—	PYGMY RIGHT WHALE
French	—	BALEINE PYGMÉE
Spanish	—	BALLENA FRANCA PIGMEA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LR/lc ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Cetacean Specialist Group

Justification:

Extract from Reeves et al. (2003, p. 37): "The Pygmy Right Whale is thought to have a circumpolar distribution in temperate and subantarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. It is one of the least known cetacean species, although recently completed anatomical studies (Kemper and Leppard 1999) and observations at sea (e.g., Matsuoka et al. 1996) have begun to reveal basic information. There are no known conservation problems (Kemper 2002)."

History:

1994

Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:	Native: Argentina; Australia; Chile; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); French Southern Territories; New Zealand; South Africa
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Atlantic-Antarctic; Atlantic-southeast; Atlantic-southwest; Indian Ocean-Antarctic; Indian Ocean-eastern; Indian Ocean-western; Pacific-southeast; Pacific-southwest

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Marine

List of Habitats:

10.1	Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Threats

List of Threats:

0	No threats (past, present)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Kemper, C.M. 2002. Pygmy Right Whale Caperea marginata. In: W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, pp. 1010-1012. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

Kemper, C.M. and Leppard, P. 1999. Estimating body length of Pygmy Right Whales (Caperea marginata) from measurements of the skeleton and baleen. Marine Mammal Science 15: 683–700.

Matsuoka, K., Fujise, Y. and Pastene, L.A. 1996. A sighting of a large school of the Pygmy Right Whale, Caperea marginata, in the southeast Indian Ocean. Marine Mammal Science 12: 594–597.

Reeves, R.R., Smith, B.D., Crespo, E.A. and di Sciara, G.N. (compilers) 2003. Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Cetacean Specialist Group 1996. Caperea marginata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 August 2008.
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