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Type locality: Hooghly River, near Calcutta, West Bengal, India. 

 Distribution : The same as for the genus. 



Family DELPHINIDAE 



Genus STENO Gray 



Steno Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, 

 1 (Mammalia) : 30, 43 [included species: the steno, Delphinus rostratus 

 Cuvier (= Steno bredanensis, type by virtual tautonomy), Delphinus 

 frontatus Cuvier (—Delphinus bredanensis Lesson), D. compressus Gray 

 {=D. bredanensis Lesson), D. attenuatus Gray (=Stenella dubia Cuvier), 

 Steno fuscus Gray (=1 Steno fuscus Gray)]. — Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1883: 482, 513 [taxonomy; type species: Delphinus 

 rostratus Cuvier (= Delphinus bredanensis Lesson), Glyphidelphis Gervais 

 a synonym].— True, 1889, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 36: 23, 156 [taxonomy]. 

 — Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq. [history; relationship]. 

 — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 308 [characters; classifi- 

 cation] . 



Glyphidelphis Gervais, 1859, Zool. Paleo. Francaise, p. 301 [type species: 

 Delphinus rostratus Cuvier (= Delphinus bredanensis Lesson)]. 



Stenopontistes Miranda Ribeiro, 1936, Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, 12: 

 19, 42 [type species: Stenopontistes zambezicus Miranda Ribeiro (= Steno 

 bredanensis Lesson)]. 



Type species: Delphinus rostratus Cuvier (= Delphinus bredanensis Lesson). 



Distribution : In the North Atlantic : from the Netherlands to Portugal 

 and off Senegal and Ivory Coast on the east, and Virginia to Florida and 

 possibly Cuba on the west; in the South Atlantic: from 1°14' S., 17°20' W., 

 and the coast of Brazil and Argentina to northeast of Tristan da Cunha 

 (32° S., 2° W.); in the North Pacific: from off California, Hawaii, and 

 Japan; in the South Pacific: from the Galapagos Islands; in the Indian 

 Ocean : from the Gulf of Aden and Mossel Bay, South Africa, to Bay of 

 Bengal and Java. 



Steno bredanensis Lesson 



Delphinus rostratus Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Nat. Hist., 9: 160 

 [France (type locality : Paimpol, Brittany) ; name preoccupied by 

 Delphinus rostratus Shaw, 1801 (=Susu gangetica Lebeck)]. — F. Cuvier, 

 in E. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 1833, Hist. Nat. Mamm., 7(67) [colored 

 figure and text of a "dauphin a long bee" from Brest, France]. — Flower, 

 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 482, fig. 6 (palate) [taxonomy; 

 characters; history of type; synonyms: planiceps Van Breda, frontatus 

 Cuvier (part)]. 



Steno rostratus, Lutkin, 1889, Vid. Selsk, Skrif., (6), Nat. Math., Afd. 

 Copenhagen, 5(1): 8, 54, pi. 1 (animal, skeleton), text figs, (sternum, 



