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name for D. capensis Cuvier, preoccupied by Delphinus capensis Gray, 

 1828]. 



D[elphinus] cephalorhynchus F. Cuvier, 1836, Hist. Nat. Cetaces, p. 158 [S. 

 Atlantic: South Africa (type locality: Cape of Good Hope)]. 



D[elphinus] hastatus F. Cuvier, 1836, Hist. Nat. Cetaces, p. 161 [S. At- 

 lantic: South Africa (type locality: Cape of Good Hope)]. 



Delphinus tridens Van Beneden, 1873, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Lettres 

 Beaux Arts, Belgique, Bruxelles, (2), 36: 33 [S. Atlantic: South Africa 

 (Cape Town) ; Castelnaus ms. name for dolphin in drawing captioned 

 Delphinus heavisidii renamed Orca capensis by Van Beneden p. 37)]. 



Type : Mounted skin and skull, originally in the museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, now in the British Museum (Natural History) ; col- 

 lected by Captain Heaviside. 



Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. 



Distribution : South Atlantic and Indian Oceans off South Africa. 



Genus ORCAELLA Gray 



Orcaella Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 285. — Fraser 



and Purves, 1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 51 et seq., 



fig. 26 (table) [auditory system; classification]. 

 Orcella Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 142, ftn. [new 



name for Orcaella Gray]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 



3: 252 [characters; classification]. 



Type species : Orcaella brevirostris Owen, by monotypy. 



Distribution : Coastal waters, estuaries, and rivers of the Indian Ocean 

 and South China Sea from North Borneo to Bay of Bengal and up the 

 Mekong, Ganges, and the Irrawaddy Rivers. 



Orcaella brevirostris Gray 



Orca [{Orcaella)} brevirostris Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 

 p. 285. 



Phoccena (Orca) brevirostris, Owen, 1866, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 6: 24, pi. 9 (skull). 



Orcella brevirostris, Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 142, 

 fig. 1 (animal) [Indian: India (Bay of Bengal; Ganges River, 70-80 

 miles upstream); characters]. — Blanford, 1891, Fauna of British India, 

 p. 578, fig. 189 (animal) [Indian: India (Bay of Bengal "ascending 

 rivers as far as the tide extends"; Singapore; North Borneo]. — 

 Thomas, 1891, Ann. Mus. Civico Genoa (2), 10: 947 [Burma (Irawaddy 

 River near Bhamo); Malaysia (Singapore, Brunei River); fluminalis 

 indistinguishable from brevirostris}. — Gibson-Hill, 1950, Sarawak Mus. 



