WoRMS taxon details
Delphinus capensis Gray, 1828
AphiaID: 137093
AphiaID: 137093
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Delphinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Delphinus bairdi Norris & Prescott, 1961 (synonym) Delphinus bairdii Dall, 1873 (synonym) Delphinus dussumieri Blanford, 1891 (preoccupied) Delphinus frithii Blyth, 1859 (synonym) Delphinus longirostris G. Cuvier, 1829 (preoccupied) Delphinus major Gray, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus microps Burmeister, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus moorei Gray, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus sao Gray, 1850 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1. page(s): 1,2 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: Heyning, J. E. and W. F. Perrin. (1994). Evidence for two species of common dolphins (genus Delphinus)from the eastern North Pacific. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 442:1-35. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Delphinus capensis capensis Jefferson & Van Waerebeek, 2002 Subspecies Delphinus capensis tropicalis Jefferson & Van Waerebeek, 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea (not valid) [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: circum-global [details] Habitat: tropical to warm temperate waters [details] Holotype: Whole mount with skull (BM 41.1734) in the British Museum (Natural History), London. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Cape of Good Hope [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137093 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Delphinus capensis. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137093 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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