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Delphinus delphis Linnaeus 1758

Description

Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: E North Atlantic ("Oceano Europaeo").

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate and tropical waters, including the Black Sea.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: bairdii, capensis, tropicalis.

COMMENTS: Includes bairdii (see van Bree and Purves, 1972) and tropicalis (see van Bree and Gallagher, 1978 and Casinos, 1984).

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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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Delphinus
Species
delphis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993