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[N. Atlantic: St. Helen, Fernando Po, Cape Verde Islands; Indian: 

 Madagascar; taxonomy; characters; synonyms: Delphinus frontalis, 

 D. doris, D. clymene, D. normalis, ?D. dubius]. — Fraser, in Norman and 

 Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 332 [characters; 

 distribution]. 



Prodelphinus franatus, Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 261 [characters]. 



Delphinus Doris Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus 

 and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 39, pi. 20 (skull) [locality unknown; type 

 skull in British Museum]; 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, 

 p. 114 [characters; no locality]. 



Tursio Doris, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., pp. 255, 400 

 [characters; S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of Good Hope)]. 



Clymene doris, Gray, 1866, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 214 [classifica- 

 tion]. 



Clymenia Doris, Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins Brit. Mus., 

 p. 6, pi. 20 (skull) [characters]; 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales 

 Brit. Mus., p. 70 [listed]. 



Clymenia doris, Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 498, 499, 

 512 [N. Atlantic : St. Helena (labelled Delphinus dubius in Paris museum) ; 

 Cap Verd (frcenatus Cuvier in Paris museum) ; Cap Verd (frontalis 

 Cuvier in Paris museum)]. 



Prodelphinus doris, True, 1885, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1884: 317, pis. 1, 2 

 (animal), pis. 3-6 (skull) [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. (Pensacola, Florida; 

 Hatteras, N.C.); characters; comparisons; Delphinus plagiodon Cope a 

 synonym]. — Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 29 [N. Atlantic: 

 Fernando Po; dubius Flower probably a synonym; skull 350a type of 

 clymene Gray and normalis Gray]. — Liitken, 1889, Vid. Selsk. Skrift., 

 Copenhagen, (6) Nat. Math., 5(1) : 31 [near Porto Rico, 10° N., 39° W.]. 



Delphinus mediterraneus Loche, 1860, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2), 12: 475, pi. 22, 

 fig. 2 (animal) [N. Atlantic: Algeria (type locality); type skin (and 

 skull?), Natural History Museum of Algiers]. 



Delphinus delphis mediterranea [sic], Nobre, 1900, Ann. Sci. Nat., Porto, 

 6: 50 [N. Atlantic: Portugal]. 



Prodelphinus sp., Cadenat and Lassarat, 1959, Bull. Inst. Frangais Afrique 

 Noire, 21(A): 779, figs. 1-7 (animal, head, beak), figs. 8-10 (foetus), 

 figs. 11-14 (skull) [N. Adantic: Ivory Coast]. 



Type: Skull, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, no. A 3035; 

 collected by M. Dussumier. 



Type locality: Near Cape Verde Islands, North Atlantic, off the 

 coast of Africa. 



Distribution: In eastern Atlantic: from near Cape Verde Islands 

 (15° N.) to off the Cape of Good Hope (40° S.) ; in western Adantic: from 

 North Carolina to Florida but not recorded from South American waters; 



