Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Grampus griseus

Description

Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812). Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 19:13.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Finistère, "envoyé de Brest".

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: rissoanus, stearnsii.

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1980:110) included rectipinna in this species but it belongs in Orcinus orca.

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 353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

Files

Files (738 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:9d39bab4ad3776760bfb63fedbefd1e5
738 Bytes Download

System files (6.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:6978b625277a236d4c2616f6fa376425
6.2 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Grampus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
G. Cuvier
Species
griseus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Grampus griseus (Cuvier, 1812) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993