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Sotalia lentiginosus, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 33 [type 

 history].— True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 15, 155, pi. 2, fig. 3 

 (skull) [characters]. 



Sotalia lentiginosa, Deraniyagala, 1945, Spolia zeylanica, 24: 119, pi. 16 

 (animal) [Indian: Ceylon; external characters]. — Barnard, 1954, 

 Guide book to South African whales and dolphins, 4: 31 [skull in 

 South African museum said to have been picked up on beach at 

 Muizenberg, False Bay, South Africa, 1896]. — Tietz, 1963, Ann. Cape 

 Prov. Mus., 3: 68, fig. 1 (animal), figs. 2-3 (skull) [Indian: South 

 Africa (Plettenburg Bay; Alagoa Bay); characters; comparisons]. 



Steno lentiginosus, Blanford, 1891, Fauna British India, p. 584, fig. 190 

 (animal) [Indian: India (Vizagapatam; Alibag, near Bombay); 

 Ceylon (Aripo)]. 



Sousa lentiginosa, Iredale and Troughton, 1934, Mem. Australian Mus., 

 6: 68 ["PQueensland," Australia]. 



Sotalia jergusoni Lydekker, 1903, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 15: 411, 

 pi. D (animal) [Indian: India (type locality: Trivandrum Beach, 

 Madras, southern India); name based on a drawing and description 

 supplied by Harold Ferguson, director of the Travancore Museum; 

 type skeleton in British Museum]. — Lydekker, 1909, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1908: 808 [a synonym of S. lentiginosus]. 



Type: Figure of entire animal and skull in British Museum (Natural 

 History), no. 1476a-66.2.5.2, presented by Sir Walter Elliot. 



Type locality: Waltair, Vizagapatam, Madras, Bay of Bengal, India. 



Distribution: Bay of Bengal from Madras to Ceylon, west to South 

 Africa, and questionably included among the cetaceans of Australian waters. 



Sotalia plumb ea G. Cuvier 



Delphinus plumb eus G. Cuvier, 1829, Regne animal, ed. 2, 1: 288, ftn. — 

 Pucheran, 1856, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2), 8: 145, 315, 362, 449 

 [characters]. 



Sotalia plumb eus [sic], Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 489, 

 513 [characters; classification]. 



Sotalia plumbea, True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 21, 153, pi. 1, figs. 

 1, 2 (animal, skull) [characters; classification]. — Bruyns, 1960, Malayan 

 Nat. Journ., 14: 159, figs. pp. 164-5 (animal) [Indian: Arabian Sea, 

 Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal; habits; local name: 

 "darted" (Kuwait)].— Harrison, 1960, Malayan Nat. Journ., 14: 87 

 [N. Pacific: South China Sea (Sarawak)]. 



Steno plumbeus, Blanford, 1891, Fauna British India, p. 583 [Indian: 

 India (Madras, Malabar, Karachi; Burma; Ceylon]. 



Sousa plumbea, Fraser and Purves, 1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 

 Zool., 7: 60 et seq., fig. 18 (pterygoid sinus), fig. 23 (air sac system) 

 [auditory system]. 



