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
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Tursiops truncatus
(Montagu, 1821)
.
Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., 3:75
, pl. 3.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
UK
,
England
, Devonshire, "in Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up the River Dart"
.
DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters, including the Black Sea.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS:
aduncus
,
gephyreus
,
gillii
,
nesarnack
,
nuuanu
.
COMMENTS: See Leatherwood and Reeves (1990). Ross and Cockroft (1990:124) considered
aduncus
to
be synonymous with
truncatus
.
Hall (1981:885-887) considered
nesarnack
and
gillii
distinct species, and synonymized
truncatus
with
nesarnack
.
Opinion 1413 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1986) conserved
truncatus
Montagu, 1821
and suppressed
nesarnack
Lacépède, 1804
.