Delphinus capensis Gray, 1828 
AphiaID: 137093

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Delphinus

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised taxa		Delphinus bairdi Norris & Prescott, 1961 (synonym) Delphinus bairdii Dall, 1873 (synonym) Delphinus dussumieri Blanford, 1891 (preoccupied) Delphinus frithii Blyth, 1859 (synonym) Delphinus longirostris G. Cuvier, 1829 (preoccupied) Delphinus major Gray, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus microps Burmeister, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus moorei Gray, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus sao Gray, 1850 (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): 1,2 [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: Heyning, J. E. and W. F. Perrin. (1994). Evidence for two species of common dolphins (genus Delphinus)from the eastern North Pacific. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 442:1-35. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English Baja-neritic common dolphin  [details] English common dolphin  [details] English long-beaked common dolphin  [details] English long-beaked saddle-back dolphin  [details] English saddle-back dolphin  [details] English whitebelly porpoise  [details] French dauphin commun à long bec  [details] Korean ginburi-cham-dolgorae  [details] Portuguese golfinho-comum-de-bico-longo  [details] Spanish delfín común de rostro largo  [details] Thai plaloma pak yao  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Delphinus capensis capensis Jefferson & Van Waerebeek, 2002 Subspecies Delphinus capensis tropicalis Jefferson & Van Waerebeek, 2002
Environment		marine
Distribution		European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea (not valid) [details] North West Atlantic [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: circum-global [details] Habitat: tropical to warm temperate waters [details] Holotype: Whole mount with skull (BM 41.1734) in the British Museum (Natural History), London. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Cape of Good Hope [details]
Images		Long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:08:12 Long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:09:23 Delphinus capensis added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137093
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). Delphinus capensis Gray, 1828. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137093 on 2013-05-21