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Arcachon, Bay of Biscay); type skull originally in Lafont Museum, 



Bordeaux]. 

 Delphinus [delphis var.] moschatus Fischer, 1881, Act. Soc. Linneenne, 



Bordeaux, (4), 35: 127, 142, 218, pi. 5, fig. 1 (animal) [N. Atlantic: 



France (type locality : Arcachon, Bay of Biscay) ; type skeleton orig- 

 inally in Lafont Museum; name based on Delphinus marginatus Lafont, 



not Pucheran]. 

 [Delphinus delphis] curvirostris Riggio, 1883, Naturalista Siciliano, 2(7): 



1-7 (separate), pi. 3, fig. 1 (type skull) [type locality: unknown; name 



based on anomalous skull in the Technical Institute of Palermo, Italy]. 

 Delphinus Dussumieri Blanford, 1891, Fauna British India, Mamm., p. 588 



[new name for D. longirostris Cuvier, 1829, preoccupied by D. longiros- 



tris Gray, 1828 (=Stenella longirostris Gray)]. 

 Delphinus microps, Burmeister (not Gray), 1866, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



(3) 18: 101 [S. Atlantic: Brazil (south of equator)]; 1867a, Zeitschr. 



gesammten Naturw., 29: 2 [S. Atlantic]; 1867b, Anal. Mus. Publ. 



Buenos Aires, 1 : 306 [S. Atlantic; Delphinus Walked Gray a synonym]. 

 Delphinus marginatus, Lafont, 1868 (not Pucheran), Act. Soc. Linneenne, 



Bordeaux, (3), 6: 518 [N. Atlantic: France (Arcachon, Bay of Biscay); 



mis identification, not new name]. 

 Delphinus roseiventris, Ogawa (not Wagner), 1932, Saito Hoonk, Jiho, 



69-70: 13 [work not seen, cit. ex Cabrera, 1961, Rev. Mus. Argentino 



Cienc. Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," 4(2): 612]. 



Type : None in existence, name based on the common dolphin of Artedi 

 (1738, Synonymia nominum piscium, p. 105). 



Type locality: "Oceano Europaeo." 



Distribution: In western Atlantic: from off Newfoundland and 

 Massachusetts to the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, coast of southern 

 Brazil and Argentina between 27° S.-45° S.; Tristan da Cunha; in eastern 

 Atlantic: from Iceland, Norway, and the Baltic Sea into north, west, and 

 south African seas ; Indian Ocean ; in the South Pacific : New Zealand and 

 Australia on the west, Peru and Chile from 4° S. to 45° S. on the east. 



Delphinus delphis ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov 



Delphinus delphis ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1935, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow 

 (Sec. Biol.), (n.s.), 44: 249. — Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe 

 and northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 553 [classification]. — Kleinenberg, 

 1956, Mammals of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov [in Russian], 

 p. 84 [U.S.S.R. (Black Sea); characters; variation; habits; economy]. 



Type: Male, skull only, no. 19, Institute of Oceanic Mammals, Moscow; 

 collected May 13, 1934; cotypes: 72 specimens. 

 Type locality: Yalta region, Black Sea, U.S.S.R. 

 Distribution : Black Sea. 



