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Gudamu Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins Brit. Mus., p. 6 

 [subgenus of Clymenia; type species: Clymenia gudamu (sic= Delphinus 

 gadamu Owen= Tur slops truncatus aduncus Ehrenberg), by monotypy; 

 spelling of generic name ostensibly a lapsus for the specific tautonym] . 



Type species: The tautonymic Tursiops tursio of authors or the "souffleur" 

 of the French coast (= Tursiops truncatus M.onta.gu*= Delphinus nesarnack 

 Lacepede), by original designation. 



Distribution: In the Atlantic: from the North and the Norwegian 

 Seas to the Mediterranean and Black Seas and South Africa on the east, 

 and from southern Greenland to Patagonia on the west; in the Pacific: 

 from California on the east, Japan on the west, to Chile, and Australia, 

 and New Zealand, respectively; in the Indian Ocean: from Australia 

 to Africa. 



Remarks: The species of Tursiops recognized are T. truncatus Montagu 

 (= T. nesarnack Lacepede) and T. gilli Dall. The first may be a composite 

 of several species or all may be one as treated by Tomilin (1957, p. 562). 

 A taxonomic revision of this popularly known and widely distributed 

 group of dolphins is urgently needed. 



Tursiops truncatus aduncus Ehrenberg 



Delphinus aduncus Ehrenberg, 1832, in Hemprichand Ehrenberg, Symbolae 

 Phisicae Mammalia, 2: ftn. 1 (last page of fascicle headed "Herpestes 

 leucurus H. E."). 



Tursiops aduncus, Fraser, in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, Check- 

 list of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals, 1758-1946, p. 736 [Indian: 

 Red Sea, India, Java, Sumatra, South Africa; S. Pacific: Australia; 

 synonyms: abusalam, hamatus, perniger, catalania, gadamu, caerulescens]. 



Delphinus hamatus Wiegmann, 1841 (or earlier), Schreber's Saugthiere, 

 7: pi. 369 (skull) [Indian: Red Sea (type locality); type a skull only, 

 collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg]. — Schlegel, 1841, Abh. Gebiete 

 Zool. Vergl. Anat., 1 : 25, ftns. [regarded as a synonym of D. tursio 

 (=7". truncatus)). — Wagner, 1846, Schreber's Saugthiere, 7: 324 

 [in synonymy of D. abusalam; type locality: Red Sea]. 



Delphinus abusalam Ruppell, 1842, Mus. Senckenbergianum (1845), 

 3: 140, pi. 12 (animal, skull, sternum, hyoid, alimentary tract) [Indian: 

 Red Sea (type locality) ; type skin and skull in Senckenberg Museum] . — 

 True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 41, 159, pi. 9, fig. 1 (animal), 

 fig. 2 (skull) [characters]. 



[Tursiops aduncus] abusalam, Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., 

 p. 765 [classification]. 



Delphinus salam [sic], Van Beneden, 1886, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist. Belgique, 

 Paleontologie, 13: 111 [lapsus for Delphinus abusalam Riippel]. 



Delphinus perniger Blyth, 1848, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 17: 249, 250 

 [Indian: Bay of Bengal (type locality); type, stuffed skin, Calcutta 



