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Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892) 
AphiaID: 254970

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) > Sousa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sousa Gray, 1866
Synonymised
taxa		  Sotalia teuszi Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
 Sotalia teuszii Kükenthal, 1892 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Kükenthal, W. (1892). Sotalia teuszii n. sp., ein pflanzenfresender (?) Delphin aus Kamerun. Zoologischer Jarhbuch Syst. 6:442—446. [details]

basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Atlantic humpback dolphin  [details]
English Atlantic hump-backed dolphin  [details]
French dauphin ŕ bosse de l'Atlantique  [details]
Slovenian Atlantski beli delfin  [details]
Spanish delfín jorobado del Atlántico  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links MarineBio.org
To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: East Atlantic coast, from Western Sahara to Angola [details]

Habitat: In estuarine and coastal waters [details]

Holotype: "Skull, presumably in the Jena Natural History Museum [Germany]; presented by Edward Tëusz." (Hershkovitz, 1966). [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Vulnerable (VU) [details]
Images 
Sousa teuszii
Sousa teuszii
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:40:32

Atlantic humpback dolphins (Sousa teuszii) just outside the surf in West Africa
Atlantic humpback dolphins (Sousa teuszii) just outside the surf in West Africa
added on 2009-04-24 - author: Tim Collins, Wildlife Conservation Society ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-24 20:23:10

Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) in West Africa
Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) in West Africa
added on 2009-04-24 - author: Mike Markovina ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-24 20:24:40
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history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59 GMT  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36 GMT  checked  Perrin, William
2009-03-11 12:36:54 GMT  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254970 on 2010-02-09
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