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Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812) 
AphiaID: 137098

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) > Grampus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Grampus Gray, 1828
Synonymised
taxa
  Delphinus aires G. Cuvier, 1812 (synonym)
Delphinus griseus G. Cuvier, 1812 (synonym)
Delphinus griseus Gray, 1828 (synonym)
Delphinus orca Temminck & Schlegel, 1841 (synonym)
Delphinus risso Risso, 1826 (synonym)
Delphinus rissoanus Desmarest, 1822 (synonym)
Delphinus rissoi Gervais, 1859 (synonym)
Globicephalus rissii Hamilton, 1837 (synonym)
Gramphidelphis griseus Kellogg, 1940 (synonym)
Grampidelphis exilis Iredale & Troughton, 1933 (synonym)
Grampidelphis griseus Iredale & Troughton, 1933 (basionym)
Grampidelphis kuzira Iredale & Troughton, 1933 (synonym)
Grampus cuvieri Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Grampus richardsoni Gray, 1850 (synonym)
Grampus rissoanus Murie, 1871 (synonym)
Grampus sakamata Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Grampus sakata Tomilin, 1957 (misspelling)
Grampus sowerbianus Fischer, 1881 (synonym)
Grampus stearnsii Dall, 1873 (synonym)
Phocaena griseus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Phocaena rissonus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Cuvier,[G.]. (1812). Rapport fait à la classe des Sciences mathématiques et physiques, sur divers Cétacés pris sur les côtes de France, pricipalement sur ceux qui sont échoués près de Paimpol, le 7 janvier 1812. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle [Paris] 19:13—14, pl. 1 (upper figure). [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: 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]

from synonym: Slijper, E.J. (1938). Die Sammlung rezenter Cetacea des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique [The collection of recent Cetacea of the Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 14(10): 1-33 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Afrikaans Risso-dolfyn  [details]
Basque marzupla  [details]
Catalan cap d'olla gris  [details]
Danish halvrgindehvaler  [details]
Danish rissosdelfin  [details]
Dutch dolfijn van Risso  [details]
Dutch gramper  [details]
Dutch grijze dolfijn  [details]
English gray grampus  [details]
English grey dolphin  [details]
English Risso's dolphin  [details]
English Risso's grampus  [details]
English white-headed grampus  [details]
French dauphin de Cuvier  [details]
French dauphin de Risso  [details]
French marsouin gris  [details]
German gestreifter Delfin  [details]
German gestreifter Delphin  [details]
German Rundkopfdelfin  [details]
German Rundkopfdelphin  [details]
Hebrew גרמפוס  [details]
Hebrew גרמפוס אפור  [details]
Indonesian lumba-lumba abu-abu  [details]
Indonesian temu bura  [details]
Italian delfino de Risso  [details]
Italian delfino di Risso  [details]
Italian grampo  [details]
Italian grampo grigio  [details]
Japanese hana gondo kujira  [details]
Japanese kamabire sakamata  [details]
Japanese mazuba iruka  [details]
Japanese sakamata kujira  [details]
Japanese shiro-shachi  [details]
Korean keunmeori-dolgorae  [details]
Lithuanian pilkasis delfinas  [details]
Malagasy lambondriaka mavomavo  [details]
Malagasy lambondriaka volombatolalaka  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) stachtodélfino  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σταχτοδέλφινο  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål arrdelfin  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål rissodelfin  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk arrdelfin  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk rissodelfin  [details]
Polish risso szary  [details]
Portuguese golfinho cinzento  [details]
Portuguese golfinho de Risso  [details]
Portuguese grampo  [details]
Russian seryy delfin  [details]
Russian серый дельфин  [details]
Slovenian okrogloglavi delfin  [details]
Spanish calderón gris  [details]
Spanish delfín de Risso  [details]
Spanish delfín gris  [details]
Spanish fabo calderon  [details]
Spanish grampo  [details]
Swedish rissos delfin  [details]
Tamil panavai meen  [details]
Turkish boz yunus  [details]
Turkish yuvarlak basli yunus  [details]
Turkish yuvarlak başlı yunus  [details]
Ukrainian Дельфін сірий  [details]
Ukrainian Сірий дельфін  [details]
Welsh dolffin Risso  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Algerian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
Eritrea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (232 nucleotides; 200 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Georges Bank, on the continental shelf and shelf edge waters  [details]

Distribution: in all oceans [details]

Habitat: temperate to tropical, oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skeleton accompanied by sketch of animal, no. JAC 1944-307 (skull), JAC 1945-4 (post-cranial skeleton), CAG B II/156 (skeleton); Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris). [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]

Predators: None [details]

Type locality: Brest, France [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 54)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 54)
added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:39:59

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 64)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 64)
added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:40:09

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus
added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:40:31

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus
added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:40:40

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus
added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:48:17

Risso's dolphin  (Grampus griseus)
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:16:34

Risso's dolphin  (Grampus griseus)
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:31:16

Risso's dolphin  (Grampus griseus)
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:32:16

Risso's dolphin  (Grampus griseus)
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:33:31

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus
added on 2012-01-31 - author: Krivosheya, Vladimir
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:48:31

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus
added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:49:39
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137098
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
2009-04-01 16:57:11Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812). 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=137098 on 2013-05-22
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