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Cephalorhynchus hectori (P. J. Van Beneden, 1881) 
AphiaID: 254979

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 Gray, 1846
Synonymised
taxa		  Cephalorhynchus albifrons True, 1889 (synonym)
 Electra clancula Hector, 1873 (nomen oblitum)
 Electra hectori Van Beneden, 1881 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Van Beneden, P. J. (1881). Bull. Roy. Acad. Belge, (3), 4.
page(s): 877,882, pl. 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: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Hector's dolphin  [details]
English white-headed dolphin  [details]
French dauphin de Hector  [details]
Spanish delfín de Hector  [details]
All child
taxa
[hide all]		 Subspecies Cephalorhynchus hectori hectori (P.-J. van Beneden, 1881)
Subspecies Cephalorhynchus hectori maui Baker, Smith & Pichler, 2002

Subspecies Cephalorhynchus hectori bicolor Oliver, 1946 (nomen nudum)

Subspecies Cephalorhynchus hectori albus Kerr, 1792 accepted as Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution New Zealand [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: in shallow coastal waters [details]

Holotype: Skin and skeleton, Mus. Royal d'Histoire naturelle, Brussels [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details]

Type locality: North coast, New Zealand, South Pacific [details]
Image 
Cephalorhynchus hectori
Cephalorhynchus hectori
added on 2012-01-31 - author: VLIZ collection
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254979
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
2009-03-24 17:08:13Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Cephalorhynchus hectori. 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=254979 on 2013-05-23
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