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Zool. Ser., 2: 29, pi. 9 (skull) [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. ("Maine to 

 Florida, Gulf of Mexico")]. 

 Type: Skull only, British Museum (Natural History), no. 353 A-62.7.18.15; 

 collected July 3, 1814. 



Type locality: Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles 

 up River Dart, Devonshire, England. 



Distribution: In the western Atlantic: from southern Greenland and 

 New Brunswick to Florida, Texas, Mexico, and the Barbados in the Lesser 

 Antilles; in the eastern Atlantic: from the Norwegian, North, and Baltic 

 Seas to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, off Senegal and the Congo and 

 recorded from about 4° S., 26° W., at sea. 



Remarks: The name Tursiops nesarnack Lacepede has had virtually no 

 currency since its introduction in 1804. On the other hand, Tursiops 

 truncatus Montagu, 1821, was used frequently during the last century and 

 almost exclusively during the present for the nominate race of the bottle- 

 nosed dolphin. No other technical name for a dolphin has been used more 

 widely in or outside the scientific literature. Tursiops truncatus Montagu, 

 therefore, is treated here as a nomen conservandum. 



Tursiops gilli Dall 



Tursiops Gillii Dall, 1873, Proc. California Acad. Sci., 5: 13; in Scammon, 

 1874, Marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, 

 p. 288 [characters].— True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 43, 160, 

 pi. 10, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) [characters]; 1914, Ann. Durban 

 Mus., 1: 20, 24 [N. Pacific: Mexico (San Bartolome Bay); U.S.A. 

 (Monterey, California); characters; comparisons]. 



Tursiops gilli, Lydekker, 1905, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905: 126 

 [part, of Dall only].— Lydekker, 1909, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908: 

 804 [part, of Dall only]. — Setzer, in Mayer, 1950, Amer. Midi. Nat., 

 43: 183 [N. Pacific: Mexico (Punta La Cholle, 6 miles north of Puerto 

 Penasco, Sonora) ; comparison with T. nuuanu]. — Norris and Prescott, 

 1961, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 63: 292, 296, 300, 313 [N. Pacific- 

 Mexico (Baja California; Golfo de California); U.S.A. (Los Angeles; 

 San Diego) ; capture ; behavior ; swimming ; reproduction ; feeding ; 

 respiration]. — Evans and Archer, 1962, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 

 61(4): 217 [scouting behavior and sound production]. — Hershkovitz, 

 1963, Journ. Mammal., 44: 101 [regarded as valid species]. — Orr, 

 1963, Journ. Mammal., 44: 424 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (San Francisco 

 Bay, California)]. 



Tursiops truncatus gillii, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and 

 northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 586 [N. Pacific; classification]. 



T[ursiops] t[runcatus] gilli, Tomilin, 1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna 

 U.S.S.R., 79: 162 [N. Pacific: Japan; China; U.S.A. (Oregon); 

 Mexico (Baja California)]. — Scheffer and Rice, 1963, U.S. Fish and 



