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Caperea

Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Balaena (Caperea) Gray p. 202
1864Caperea Gray p. 202 figs. Fig. 2
1866Caperea Gray p. 101
1868Caperea Gray p. 1
1870Neobalaena Gray p. 124
1872Caperea Brandt p. 119
1872Neobalaena Brandt p. 119
1904Caperea Palmer p. 157
1904Neobalaena Palmer p. 452
1904Neobalaena Trouessart p. 786
1912Neobalaena Turner p. 29
1921Neobalaena Winge p. 7
1923Neobalaena Miller p. 40
1926Neobalaena Oliver Schneider p. 154
1928Neobalaena Weber p. 389
1945Neobalaena Simpson p. 105
1960Caperea Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Caperea Scheffer and Rice p. 9
1966Caperea Hershkovitz p. 183
1998Caperea Rice p. 65
2003Caperea Geisler and Sanders p. 27
2005Caperea Mead and Brownell p. 726
2006Caperea Bouetel and Muizon p. 387
2007Caperea Steeman p. 880
2008Caperea Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Caperea Ekdale et al. p. 39
2011Caperea Geisler et al. pp. 6, 28 figs. Table 1
2013Caperea Fordyce and Marx p. 4
2015Caperea Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1
2015Caperea Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Caperea Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2015Caperea Tsai and Fordyce p. 1
2016Caperea Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10
2016Caperea Marx et al. p. 110
2017Caperea Berta p. 167
2018Caperea Gol'din p. 23 figs. Fig. 14
2018Caperea Marx et al. p. 2
2023Caperea Govender and Marx p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
familyCetotheriidae()
subfamilyNeobalaeninae()
genusCaperea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Caperea Gray 1864
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Caperea marginata Gray 1846 [pygmy right whale]
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Invalid names: Balaena (Caperea) antipodarum Gray 1864 [synonym]
Invalid names: Neobalaena Gray 1870 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available