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Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846) 
AphiaID: 137103

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) > Peponocephala (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Peponocephala Nishiwaki & Norris, 1966
Synonymised
taxa		  Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus) fusiformis Owen, 1866 (synonym)
 Delphinus pectoralis Peale, 1848 (synonym)
 Electra asia Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Electra electra Nakajima & Nishiwaki, 1965 (synonym)
 Electra fusiformis Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Electra obtusa Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus asia Gray, 1846 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus electra Gray, 1846 (basionym)
 Lagenorhynchus pectoralis Cassin, 1858 (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): 35, pl. 13 [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: Jefferson, T. A. and N. B. Barros. (1997). Peponocephala electra. Mammalian Species 553:1--6. [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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Afrikaans bolkopdolfyn  [details]
Dutch witlipgriend  [details]
English blackfish  [details]
English Electra dolphin  [details]
English Hawaiian blackfish  [details]
English Indian broad-beaked dolphin  [details]
English many-toothed blackfish  [details]
English melon-headed dolphin  [details]
English melon-headed whale  [details]
French péponocéphale  [details]
German Breitschnabeldelfin  [details]
Indonesian paus pemangsa kecil  [details]
Indonesian temu kebon  [details]
Italian balena dalla testa di melone  [details]
Italian peponocefalo  [details]
Japanese kazuha gondo kujira  [details]
Korean goyang-i-gorae  [details]
Lithuanian pūstagalvis delfinas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Πεπονοκέφαλο δελφίνι  [details]
Polish melonogłów elektra  [details]
Portuguese golfinho cabeça de melão  [details]
Russian shirokoklyuvyi delfin  [details]
Spanish ballena melon  [details]
Spanish calderon pequeno  [details]
Spanish delfín cabeza de melón  [details]
Spanish tonina negra  [details]
Thai plaloma hua klom  [details]
Thai plaloma hua taengmo  [details]
Turkish elektra balinası  [details]
Ukrainian бездзьобий дельфін  [details]
Ukrainian Бесклювий  [details]
Ukrainian дельфін  [details]
Ukrainian Дельфін бездзьобий  [details]
Ukrainian широкопикий  [details]
Welsh morfil pen pwmpen  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Comores [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (58 nucleotides; 80 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: in tropical and subtropical oceanic waters between 40ºN and 35ºS [details]

Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), London; no. 1844.10.5.3. [details]

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

Type locality: Unknown. [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:29:46

Peponocephala electra
Peponocephala electra
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-20 00:02:27

Melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
Melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:07:31

Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:08:26

Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:09:36
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137103
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
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Peponocephala electra. 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=137103 on 2013-05-25
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