Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846) 
AphiaID: 137103

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

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: 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: 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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans bolkopdolfyn  [details] Dutch witlipgriend  [details] English blackfish  [details] English Electra dolphin  [details] English Hawaiian blackfish  [details] English Indian broad-beaked dolphin  [details] English many-toothed blackfish  [details] English melon-headed dolphin  [details] English melon-headed whale  [details] French péponocéphale  [details] German Breitschnabeldelfin  [details] Indonesian paus pemangsa kecil  [details] Indonesian temu kebon  [details] Italian balena dalla testa di melone  [details] Italian peponocefalo  [details] Japanese kazuha gondo kujira  [details] Korean goyang-i-gorae  [details] Lithuanian pūstagalvis delfinas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Πεπονοκέφαλο δελφίνι  [details] Polish melonogłów elektra  [details] Portuguese golfinho cabeça de melão  [details] Russian shirokoklyuvyi delfin  [details] Spanish ballena melon  [details] Spanish calderon pequeno  [details] Spanish delfín cabeza de melón  [details] Spanish tonina negra  [details] Thai plaloma hua klom  [details] Thai plaloma hua taengmo  [details] Turkish elektra balinası  [details] Ukrainian бездзьобий дельфін  [details] Ukrainian Бесклювий  [details] Ukrainian дельфін  [details] Ukrainian Дельфін бездзьобий  [details] Ukrainian широкопикий  [details] Welsh morfil pen pwmpen  [details]
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] Pacific Ocean [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (58 nucleotides; 80 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI 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]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:29:46 Peponocephala electra added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-20 00:02:27 Melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:07:31 Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:08:26 Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) in the Philippines added on 2009-04-23 - author: Perrin, William qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:09:36
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137103
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). Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846). 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=137103 on 2013-06-20