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Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828) 
AphiaID: 254978

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Cephalorhynchus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cephalorhynchus Gray, 1846
Synonymised
taxa
  Cephalorhynchus heavisidei True, 1889 (misspelling)
Delphinus capensis G. Cuvier, 1829 (synonym)
Delphinus cephalorhynchus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Delphinus hastatus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Delphinus heavisidii Gray, 1828 (synonym)
Delphinus tridens Van Beneden, 1873 (synonym)
Grampus headivisii Lesson, 1836 (misspelling)
Orca capensis Van Beneden & Gervais, 1873 (synonym)
Phocaena capensis Hamilton, 1837 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Gray J.E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1.
page(s): 2 [details]


basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Afrikaans Heaviside-dolfyn  [details]
English Haviside's dolphin  [details]
English Heaviside's dolphin  [details]
French dauphin de Heaviside  [details]
Spanish delfín de Heaviside  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (66 nucleotides; 45 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: East South Atlantic off SW Africa [details]

Habitat: coastal [details]

Holotype: Mounted skin and skull, originally in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, now in British Museum (Natural History), London; collected by by Captain Haviside. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-01-18 17:46:43

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-01-18 17:47:06

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-01-18 17:46:58
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254978
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Cephalorhynchus heavisidii. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254978 on 2013-05-25
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