Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846

Description

Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846. Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Erebus" and "Terror", 1:33.

TYPE LOCALITY: "South Seas".

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: tropical and warm-temperate waters; cold-temperate waters of the N Pacific, where it appears to stray as far north as the Gulf of Alaska (Pike and MacAskie, 1969).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: brachypterus, scammonii, sieboldii.

COMMENTS: See Van Bree (1971).

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
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Globicephala
Species
macrorhynchus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993