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WoRMS taxon details
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
AphiaID: 137096
AphiaID: 137096
| 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) > Globicephala (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Globicephala Lesson, 1828 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Globicephala brachycephala Cadenat, 1957 (synonym) Globicephala chinensis Gray, 1866 (synonym) Globicephala indica Blyth, 1852 (synonym) Globicephala macrorhyncha Fraser, 1950 (synonym) Globicephala mela Morice, 1958 (synonym) Globicephala melas scammonii Tomilin, 1957 (synonym) Globicephala scammoni Sowerby, 1926 (synonym) Globicephala scammonii Kuroda, 1938 (synonym) Globicephala scamonii Nishiwaki, 1957 (synonym) Globicephala sieboldii Gray, 1846 (synonym) Globicephala ventricosa Lacépède, 1804 Globicephalus brachypterus Cope, 1876 (synonym) Globicephalus macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 (basionym) Globicephalus scammoni Dall, 1874 (synonym) Globicephalus scammonii Cope, 1869 (synonym) Globicephalus sibo Gray, 1871 (synonym) Globiceps macrorhynca Flower, 1884 (synonym) Globiocephala macrorhyncha Gibson Hill, 1950 (synonym) Globiocephalus guadaloupensis Gray, 1871 (synonym) Globiocephalus intermedius Van Beneden & Gervais, 1868-79 (synonym) Globiocephalus propinquus Malm, 1871 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray, J. E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1(Mammalia):48, pl. 1, fig. 1 (baleen). page(s): 33 [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: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., 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: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Knokke-Heist (from synonym) [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion [details] Schelde estuary (from synonym) [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: in all oceans [details] Habitat: warm temperate to tropical, oceanic [details] Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), no. 1946.8.9.2, originally presented by J. Bennett. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: "South Seas" [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137096 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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