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name preoccupied by Globiceps Lepeletier and Serville, 1825, an insect, 

 and Ayres, 1852, a coelenterate ; Globiceps Van Beneden, 1868 a nomen 

 nudum] . 



Type species: Delphinus globiceps Cuvier (=Delphinus melas Traill), by 

 original designation. 



Distribution: All seas from southern Greenland, Norway, Alaska, and 

 Japan in the north to the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn, New Zealand, 

 and Kerguelen Islands in the south. 



Globicephala melaena melaena Traill 



Delphinus melas Traill, 1809, Nicholson's Journ. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, 

 22: 81, pi. 3 (animal).— Fraser, 1951, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (12), 4: 

 943 [taxonomy]. 



Globiocephalus melas, Murie, 1874, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 8: 235, 

 pis. 30-38 (soft anatomy). — Dabbene, 1902, Anal. Mus. Buenos Aires, 

 (3), 1: 350 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Tierra del Fuego)]. — Liouville, 

 1913, Deuxieme Exped. Antarctique Francaise, 1908-1910, pp. 1, 

 159, fig. 14 (animal with scar from squid tentacles), fig. 15 (head), 

 pi. 6, fig. 3 (animal) [taxonomy; characters; habits]. 



G[lobiceps] melas, Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 509 

 [N. Atlantic; S. Pacific: Australia (Tasmania); New Zealand; syno- 

 nyms: qffinis Gray, intermedins Harlan, Splicer ocephalus incrassatus Gray]. 



Globicephalus melas, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 19 [S. 

 Atlantic: Falkland Islands; N. Atlantic; S. Pacific; synonyms: 

 Delphinus globiceps Cuvier, Globiocephalus svineval Gray]. — True, 1889, 

 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 133, 183, pi. 40, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) 

 [taxonomy; synonyms: Globiocephalus svineval Gray, G. qffinis Gray, 

 G. edwardsii [sic] A. Smith, G. incrassatus Gray, Delphinus intermedius Har- 

 lan, Sphcerocephalus incrassatus Gray]. — Lahille, 1899, Primera reunion del 

 Congreso Latinoamericano, 3: 201 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Santa 

 Cruz; Tierra del Fuego; Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires)]. — Beddard, 

 1900, Book of whales, p. 280, pi. 19 (animal) [part; S. Pacific: New 

 Zealand; S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of Good Hope); synonyms: 

 edwardsi Smith, globiceps Cuvier]. — Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool. 

 Buenos Aires, 1905: 63 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Golfo Nuevo, Chubut; 

 Santa Cruz; Tierra del Fuego)]. — Schneider, 1936, Comun. Mus. 

 Conception (Chile), ano 1(6): 105 [S. Pacific: Chile (Ancud; Los 

 Vilos, Coquimbo); Globicephalus chilensis Philippi a synonym]. — 

 Cabrera and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos sudamericanos, p. 300 [char- 

 acters; habits]. — Yafiez, 1948, Rev. Biol. Marina, Valparaiso, 1: 116 

 [S. Pacific: Chile; characters; local name: "calderon negro"]. — Mann, 

 1957, Invest, zool. chilenas, 4: 99 [key characters]. 



Globicephala melas, Sapin-Jaloustre, 1953, Mammalia, 17(4): 253, fig. 22 

 (animal) [sighting characters]. — Cabrera, 1961, Rev. Mus. Argentino 



