Globicephala melas (Traill 1809)
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Delphinidae
- genus
- Globicephala
- species
- Globicephala melas
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
discussion
COMMENTS: See Van Bree (1971). Formerly called G. melaena but Article 31 b 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).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic and southern Oceans: cold-temperate waters. Kasuya (1975) described the historic distribution in the NW Pacific.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, " in Scapay Bay, in Pomona, one of the Orkneys ".
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: edwardii, giobiceps, leucosagmaphora, svineval.
Name
- Homonyms
- Globicephala melas (Traill 1809)