34 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 246 



Steno? brevimanus, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 236 



[Indian: Straits of Banda and Singapore; characters of supposed type 



skull; synonyms: "dauphin a petit pectoral" Pucheran, microbrachium 



Gray]. 



Prodelphinus brevimanus, Gervais, in Van Beneden and Gervais, 1880, 



Osteographie des cetaces, p. 605 [classification]. 

 Delphinus? microbrachium Gray, 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, 

 p. 119 [name based on the "dauphin a petit pectoral, Voy. Pole Sud, 

 t. 21, f. 2; t. 23, f. 7, 8"; no locality; type a skull in the Paris museum 

 labelled "dauphin a petit pectoral"]. 

 Delphinus capensis, Rapp (not Gray 1828), 1837, Die Cetaceen, p. 31, 

 pi. 2, fig. 1 (animal) [S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of Good Hope)]. 

 Steno Capensis, Gray 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 522 [S. 

 Pacific: South Africa (type locality: Cape of Good Hope); type in 

 South African Museum, collected by Capt. Carew, later presented 

 to British Museum]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 394 

 [characters] . 

 C[lymenia] (Steno) Capensis, Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1883: 512 [classification]. 

 [Prodelphinus] capensis, Trouessart, 1898, Cat. Mamm., p. 1035 [classi- 

 fication]. 

 Delphinus Rappii Reichenbach, 1845, Synopsis Mammalium, Leipzig, 

 1: 12, pi. 18, fig. 57 (ex Rapp) [name based on D. capensis Rapp (not 

 Gray)]; 1846, Vollst. Naturg. Cataceen, p. 117, pi. 18, fig. 57 [S. 

 Atlantic: South Africa (type locality: Cape of Good Hope); name 

 based on Delphinus Capensis Rapp (not Gray), mounted skin and skull 

 in Stuttgart Museum]. 

 Clymene punctata Gray, 1866, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 738. — 

 True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 67, 69 [taxonomy; a synonym 

 of attenuatus] . 

 Delphinus punctatus, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 



398, fig. 101 (animal) [N. Atlantic: 16° 40' N., 21° W.]. 

 Types: One or more skulls only, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris. According to Gray (1850, Cat. Cetacea, p. 119) three skulls, nos. 

 2, 1, 10, are labelled dubius. True (1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 73) 

 lists six Paris museum skulls without locality; nos. 3036, 3030, 3039, 3038, 

 3032, 3040. Fraser (1950, Atlantide Rep., 1: 72) refers to four of these, 

 of which one presumably is the holotype redescribed by Pucheran (1856, 

 Rev. Mag. Zool, p. 449). 



Type locality: Not given in original description; later the specimen 

 was said to be "un qui vient sur nos cotes [i.e., of France]" (Cuvier, 1827, 

 Regne animal, 1: 288). According to Gray (1850, Cat. Cetacea, pp. 119, 

 120), one of the three skulls examined by him is from "Cap Verd," the 



