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WoRMS taxon details
Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846)
AphiaID: 137103
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: 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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal 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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Peponocephala electra (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=137103 on 2010-09-02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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