Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
Author
Jo, Yeong-Seok
Author
Baccus, John T.
Author
Koprowski, John L.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-19
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1
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Steno bredanensis
(G. Cuvier
in
Lesson, 1828
)—Rough-toothed Dolphin
Delphinus bredanensis
G. Cuvier
in
Lesson, 1828 p.206
;
Type
locality-
Coast
of
France
.
D. rostratus
Desmarest, 1817 p.160
(not valid by
Miller, 1924
see p.508).
Steno rostratus
Gray, 1846 p.43
;
Type
locality- North Sea;
Miller, 1924 p.508
;
Kuroda, 1938 p.17
.
S. bredanensis
:
Kim
et al.
, 2000 p.106
;
Kim, 2004 p.249
.
Range:
The range of
S. bredanensis
reaches the South Sea of
Korea
(
Fig. 98
). A few vagrant individuals have stranded on
Jeju
Island and
Busan
(
Kim 2004
).
Remarks:
Kuroda (1938)
named this species in
Korea
as
S. rostratus
, but the latter was synonymized into
S. bredanensis
(
Watkins
et al.
1987
)
. A controversy arose over whether
Steno
should be grouped with
Orcaella
or
Sotalia
(
Caballero
et al
. 2008
,
McGowen
et al
. 2009
,
Steeman
et al
. 2009
). Recent DNA investigations failed to confirm all of the revisions suggested by
LeDuc
et al
. (1999)
and did not produce consistent estimates of phylogenetic relationships within the family (
LeDuc
et al
. 1999
;
Caballero
et al
. 2008
). Traditionally, based on morphological similarity, the Genus
Steno
was placed in the Subfamily
Stenoninae
with the Genera
Sousa
,
and
Sotalia
(
Perrin 1989
,
Vilstrup
et al
. 2011
).
Steno bredanensis
is currently considered a monotypic taxon.