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WoRMS taxon details
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828)
AphiaID: 254978
AphiaID: 254978
| 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) > Cephalorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cephalorhynchus Lacépède, 1804 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cephalorhynchus heavisidei True, 1889 (misspelling) Delphinus capensis G. Cuvier, 1829 (synonym) Delphinus cephalorhynchus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym) Delphinus hastatus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym) Delphinus heavisidii Gray, 1828 (synonym) Delphinus tridens Van Beneden, 1873 (synonym) Grampus headivisii Lesson, 1836 (misspelling) Orca capensis Van Beneden & Gervais, 1873 (synonym) Phocaena capensis Hamilton, 1837 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray, J. E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1. page(s): 2 [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: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Rice, D.W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4:1--231/ [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] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: East South Atlantic off SW Africa [details] Habitat: coastal [details] Holotype: Mounted skin and skull, originally in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, now in British Museum (Natural History), London; collected by by Captain Haviside. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828). 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=254978 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||
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