658 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



vol. 1, Cetaces, p. 206. (Listed as Delphinorhynchus bredanensis on page 

 440 of table methodique.) 

 1829. Delphinus bredanensis Van Breda, Nieuwe Verh. Eerste Kl. Kon. Neder- 



landsch Inst., vol. 2, pp. 235-237, pis. 1-2. 

 1846. Steno compressus Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus 

 and Terror, . . . , vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 43, pi. 27. (South Sea, Antarctic 

 expedition.) 

 Type Locality. — European Seas. Range. — In western North Atlantic re- 

 corded from Tampa, Fla., (USNM 49628), and in eastern North Pacific from 

 Honolulu, Hawaii (Zool. Inst. Univ. Copenhagen), and from Stinson Beach, 

 Marin County, Calif. (Orr, Wasmann Journ. Biol., vol. 9, No. 2, p. 147, 1951). 



Genus DELPHINUS Linnaeus 

 1758. Delphinus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 77. (Type, 

 Delphinus delphis Linnaeus.) 



Delphinus delphis Linnaeus* (dolphin) 



1758. [Delphinus] delphis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 77. 



1884. Delphinus delphis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 589, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — European Seas. Range. — In western North Atlantic recorded 

 from Iceland (Saemundsson, Mammalia, in Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, 

 p. 18, 1939) and Woods Hole, Mass. (USNM 20873), south to Bahama Islands 

 and Jamaica (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36, pp. 48, 56, 161, Aug. 8, 1889) . 



Delphinus bairdii Dall* 



1873. Delphinus bairdii Dall, Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 5, p. 12, Janu- 

 ary 29, 1873. (For present status see Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 49, pp. 145-146, Aug. 22, 1936.) 

 Type Locality. — Cape [now Point] Arguello, Santa Barbara County, Calif. 

 Range. — In eastern North Pacific recorded from Pacific Beach, Wash. 

 (Scheffer and Slipp, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 29, No. 2, p. 269, March 1948), Car- 

 mel (USNM 20162) and San Diego, Calif. (USNM 49800), and Escondido Bay, 

 Baja California (USNM 260235). 



Genus TURSIOPS 73 Gervais 



1843. Tursio Gray, List of . . . Mammalia in the . . . British Museum, pp. 

 xxiii, 105, May 13, 1843. (Type, Delphinus truncatus Montague. Not 

 Tursio Wagler, Natiirliches System . . . , p. 30, August 1830, nor Tursio 

 Fleming, The philosophy of zoology; . . . , vol. 2, p. 211, 1822.) 



1855. Tursiops Gervais, Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes . . . , vol. 2, p. 

 323. (Type, Delphinus truncatus Montague. Proposed as a substitute for 

 Tursio Gray.) 



Tursiops truncatus ( Montague ) * ( bottlenose porpoise ) 



1821. Delphinus truncatus Montague, Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 3, 



p. 75. 

 1884. Tursiops tursio and T. erebennus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 

 (App., Circ. 29), p. 589, Nov. 29, 1884. 



73 Reviewed by True, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 10-24, June 1914. 



