WoRMS name details
Delphinus breviceps Wagner, 1846
383812 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:383812)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Wagner, J. A. (1846). Eilfte ordnung der säugethiere. Cetacea. Fischzitzthiere [The eleventh order of mammals. Cetacea. Fish-teat-animals]. Pages 99–370 in von Schreber. Die säugthiere in abbildungen nach der natur mit beschreibungen. Siebenter Theil [Nature like illustrations of mammals with descriptions. 7th part]. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, Germany. [details]
Note No type locality specified but is stated as...
Type material No type locality specified but is stated as “Rio de la Plata” (Argentina) by Jacquinot and Pucheran (1853). The scientific name is listed in the appendix and a drawing of the animal is provided. Jacquinot and Pucheran (1853:39) and Jacquinot (1842–1853; Plate 22 Figure 1, Plate 23 Figures 5 and 6) reference Wagner’s drawing as “Dauphin a [with accent grave] museau court. – Delphinus breviceps.” Gray (1846b) states that “The skull, Dauphin à museau court” is “in the Paris Museum.” Kellogg (1941) states that D. breviceps should be regarded as a color variant of “the porpoise hitherto known as Lagenorhynchus fitzroyi.” Robineau (1990), after reexamining the specimen, considered it to be a synonym of L. obscurus. Therefore, the holotype exists as a skeleton of a specimen collected from Rio de la Plata (Argentina) “à 20 lieues de l’embouchure” [about 20 leagues from the mouth] on the expedition of the Astrolabe and the Zélée commanded by Dumont d’Urville, serial no. JAC:1880-646 at the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy of the National Museum of Natural History (Paris; Robineau 1990). See True (1889), Kellogg (1941), Robineau (1990), and Brownell and Cipriano (1999) for more information on the history of this specimen. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Delphinus breviceps Wagner, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383812 on 2024-06-20
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original description
Wagner, J. A. (1846). Eilfte ordnung der säugethiere. Cetacea. Fischzitzthiere [The eleventh order of mammals. Cetacea. Fish-teat-animals]. Pages 99–370 in von Schreber. Die säugthiere in abbildungen nach der natur mit beschreibungen. Siebenter Theil [Nature like illustrations of mammals with descriptions. 7th part]. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, Germany. [details]
taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
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Type material No type locality specified but is stated as “Rio de la Plata” (Argentina) by Jacquinot and Pucheran (1853). The scientific name is listed in the appendix and a drawing of the animal is provided. Jacquinot and Pucheran (1853:39) and Jacquinot (1842–1853; Plate 22 Figure 1, Plate 23 Figures 5 and 6) reference Wagner’s drawing as “Dauphin a [with accent grave] museau court. – Delphinus breviceps.” Gray (1846b) states that “The skull, Dauphin à museau court” is “in the Paris Museum.” Kellogg (1941) states that D. breviceps should be regarded as a color variant of “the porpoise hitherto known as Lagenorhynchus fitzroyi.” Robineau (1990), after reexamining the specimen, considered it to be a synonym of L. obscurus. Therefore, the holotype exists as a skeleton of a specimen collected from Rio de la Plata (Argentina) “à 20 lieues de l’embouchure” [about 20 leagues from the mouth] on the expedition of the Astrolabe and the Zélée commanded by Dumont d’Urville, serial no. JAC:1880-646 at the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy of the National Museum of Natural History (Paris; Robineau 1990). See True (1889), Kellogg (1941), Robineau (1990), and Brownell and Cipriano (1999) for more information on the history of this specimen. [details]