Globiocephalus australis Gray 1871
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Description
Globiocephalus australis Gray, 1871b nomen nudum
Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales Brit. Mus., p. 85. (1871).
Common name. Long-finned Pilot Whale.
Current name. Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809), following Perrin (2009j).
Material. Type specimens not designated. Gray states “Coast of Australia. In Museum of Sydney”.
Comments. Gray (1871b: 85) listed a name “ Globiocephalus australis ” only in relation to material in the “Museum of Sydney” (= AM). He did not provide a description and the name is a nomen nudum, and listed by Hershkovitz (1966) as a synonym of Globicephala melaena melaena (Traill) [variant spelling of melas, see Jackson & Groves, 2015]; not cited by Scott (1873) or Iredale & Troughton (1934). Four skulls registered in the Palmer Register possibly represent the material referred to by Gray as being in the AM Collection. Although of no nomenclatural significance, they are of possible historical value and are mentioned here. Three of these are entered with no generic or species entry, locality, date or collector: PA.316, PA.317 and PA.321. A fourth, PA.324, a lower jaw, from Tasmania, was donated by “Dr Cox” in April 1871. All have been located in the collection except PA.317, which may be represented by an old Globicephala skull with no number, writing or labels. (Globiocephalus Gray, 1846 is an emendation of Globicephala Lesson, 1828, see Hershkovitz (1966: 90)).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Globiocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Species
- australis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Globiocephalus australis Gray, 1871 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017
References
- Gray, J. E. 1871 b. Supplement to the Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum. London: British Museum Trustees. vii + 108 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 16021
- Traill, T. S. 1809. Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts 22: 81 - 83, pl. 3.
- Perrin, W. F. 2009 j. Globicephalus australis Gray, 1871. In World Cetacea Database ed. W. F. Perrin. [Accessed 12 July 2017].
- Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalogue of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: 1 - 259. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.246
- Scott, A. W. 1873. Mammalia, Recent and Extinct; an Elementary Treatise for the Use of the Public Schools of New South Wales. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer. xii + 142 + vii pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1846. On the cetaceous animals. In The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Volume 1. Mammalia, Birds, ed. J. Richardson and J. Gray, pp. 13 - 53. London: E. W. Janson. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 7364
- Lesson, R. P. 1828. Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des mammiferes et des oiseaux decouverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours. Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, ou histoire naturelle des animaux rares decouverts par les naturalistes et les voyageurs depuis la mort de Buffon. Tom. 1. Cetaces. Paris: Baudoin Freres.