Order Cetacea Author James G. Mead Author Robert L. Brownell, Jr. text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 349 364 book chapter 193271 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 b3335890-cc2a-4092-9ace-81c1cd7b5cad 1-56098-217-9 7352970 Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) . Règne Anim., Nouv. ed., 1:291 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , Cape Prov. , Cape of Good Hope ("à découvert au Cap,". Almost certainly erroneous; unknown today from coast of Africa . DISTRIBUTION: Indo-Pacific: warm-temperate to tropical waters; Persian Gulf to Malaysia , north coast of Java (Tas'an and Leatherwood, 1984), China , and Japan : coastal waters and some rivers. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I. SYNONYMS: asiaeorientalis ; mêlas Temminck (not Traill), sunameri . COMMENTS: Includes as subspecies asiaeorientalis and sunameri . Reviewed by Pilleri and Gihr (1972, 1975:657, 673, 1980b). Van Bree (1973) considered asiaeorientalis to be of subspecific rank and sunameri to be synonymous with phocaenoides .