Image of Megaptera Gray 1846
Description:
Observer: Harding Jared; Flavio Affinito, Nadine Franz, Megan Ross
Date of record: 2015-08-17
Province: Western Cape
Species name: Megaptera novaeangliae
Common name: Humpback Whale -- Humpback Whale
Family: Balaenopteridae
Record status: ACCEPTED.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota
- Opisthokonta
- Metazoa
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda
- Amniota
- Synapsida
- Therapsida (therapsid)
- Cynodontia
- Mammalia (Mammal)
- Theria (Therians)
- Eutheria (eutherian)
- Placentalia (placental)
- Boreoeutheria
- Laurasiatheria
- Scrotifera
- Cetartiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
- Cetacea (dolphins, porpoises, and whales)
- Mysticeti (baleen whales)
- Balaenopteridae
- Megaptera
- Megaptera novaeangliae (Bunch)
- Reptiliomorpha
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Source Information
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- Animal Demography Unit 2019. Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town
- Recorder
- Harding Jared
- Recorder
- Flavio Affinito
- Recorder
- Nadine Franz
- Recorder
- Megan Ross
- original
- original media file
- visit source
- partner site
- Fitzpatrick Institute of Ornithology Virtual Museum
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