Globicephala mêlas (Traill, 1809)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 352

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154915

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scientific name

Globicephala mêlas (Traill, 1809)
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Globicephala mêlas (Traill, 1809) View in CoL . Nicholson's J. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 22:81.

TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, "in Scapay Bay, in Pomona, one of the Orkneys" .

DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic and southern Oceans: cold-temperate waters. Kasuya (1975) described the historic distribution in the NW Pacific.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: edwardii , giobiceps , leucosagmaphora , svineval .

COMMENTS: See Van Bree (1971). Formerly called G. melaena but Article 31b of the third edition of the International of Zoological Nomenclature (1985) specifically gave mêlas as an example of a Greek adjective that does not change its ending when transferred to a genus of another gender (see Schevill, 1990«, b; Rice, 1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Globicephala

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