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Globicephala melas
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Description
Globicephala mêlas (Traill, 1809). Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81.
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, "in Scapay Bay, in Pomona, one of the Orkneys".
DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic and southern Oceans: cold-temperate waters. Kasuya (1975) described the historic distribution in the NW Pacific.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS: edwardii, giobiceps, leucosagmaphora, svineval.
COMMENTS: See Van Bree (1971). Formerly called G. melaena but Article 31b of the third edition of the International of Zoological Nomenclature (1985) specifically gave mêlas as an example of a Greek adjective that does not change its ending when transferred to a genus of another gender (see Schevill, 1990«, b; Rice, 1990).
Notes
Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0744FFA8FFDAFFA8E742F9543B21FFEF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/FB7D87D0FFD9FFABE64CF0153EFAF530 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119913 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFD9FFABE64CF0153EFAF530.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Globicephala
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Traill
- Species
- melas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993