Published December 31, 1982
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Globicephala melaena
Description
Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809). Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.K., Scotland, Orkney Isis., Pomona, Scapay Bay.
DISTRIBUTION: Cold temperate waters, North Atlantic and southern Oceans.
COMMENT: Includes leucosagmaphora and edwardii; see Van Bree, 1971, Beaufortia, 19(249):79- 87. Kasuya, 1975, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst. (Tokyo), 27: 110, described the historic distribution in the N.W. Pacific.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002002002001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C48BD20FFBFFFB2FFEA4163CA624C0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Globicephala
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Traill
- Species
- melaena
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- van Bree, P. J. H. 1971. On Globicephala sieboldii Gray, 1846, and other species of pilot whale (Notes on Cetacea, Delphinoidea III). Beaufortia, 19 (249): 79 - 87.
- Kasuya, T. 1975. Past occurrence of Globicephala melaena in the western North Pacific. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (Tokyo), 27: 95 - 110.