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Globicephala Lesson 1828
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Globicephala Lesson 1828
Globicephala Lesson 1828, Compl. Oeuvres Buffon Hist. Nat., Vol. 1: 441.
Type Species: Delphinus globiceps Cuvier 1812
Synonyms: Cetus Wagler 1830; Globiceps Flower 1884; Sphaerocephalus Gray 1864.
Species and subspecies: 2 species with 2 subspecies:
Species Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846
Species Globicephala melas (Traill 1809)
Subspecies Globicephala melas subsp. melas Traill 1809
Subspecies Globicephala melas subsp. edwardii Smith 1834
Discussion: Reviewed by Van Bree (1971).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 728, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/347D58E1F49DD54E115EEC1EB4531449 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/FD5AA2FBF954EC5312ECBD373F89C5F9 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231535310 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Globicephala
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Globicephala Lesson, 1828 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Flower, W. H., and J. G. Garson. 1884. Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals Recent and extinct contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Part II. Class Mammalia other than man. Printed for the College, London, 779 pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1864 [1865]. A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae) founded on the collection in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1864: 502 - 579.
- Gray, J. E. 1846. On the cetaceous animals. Pp. 13 - 53, in The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 (Sir J. Richardson and J. E. Gray, eds.) [1844 - 1875]. E. W. Janson, London, 2 vols.
- 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.