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these wide-ranging and migratory dolphins into northern and southern 

 races does not exist. Recognition of the northern Pacific G. m. sieboldii 

 simply follows a pattern that may be as much subjective as objective. 



Globicephala melaena sieboldi Gray 



Delphinus globiceps, Temminck (not Cuvier), 1841, Fauna Japonica, pi. 



27, fig. 1 (young animal), figs. 2, 3 (skull), fig. 4 (teeth) [N. Pacific: 



Japan (Nagasaki)]. 

 Globiocephala Sieboldii Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. 



Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 32.— True, 1886, Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus., 36: 142 ["it will very probably prove to be identical with G. 



scammonii"] — Fraser, in Ellerman and Morrison Scott, 1951, Checklist 



of Palaearctic and Indian mammals, p. 741 ["premaxillae more like 



macrorhynchus or scammoni than melaena"]. 

 Globicephala Sieboldii, Kuroda, 1938, List of Japanese mammals, p. 19 



[N. Pacific: Japan]. 

 Globicephala sieboldii, Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 551 



[antedates macrorhyncha and scammoni]. 

 Globicephalus Scammonii Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



21 : 21, figs. 12, 13 (sketch of animal) [N. Pacific: Mexico (type locality: 



10 miles off coast of Baja California, 31° N.); type, 1 of 3 specimens 



captured Dec. 14, 1862, and described by Scammon (1874 Marine 



mammals of the northwestern coast of North America, p. 68) ; cotype 



skull in U.S. National Museum, no. 9074]. 

 Globicephala scammonii, Kuroda, 1938, List of Japanese mammals, p. 19 



[N. Pacific: Japan]. — G. M. Allen, 1938, Mammals of China and 



Mongolia, 1: 506 [N. Pacific: China (Yangtze Estuary)]. — Scheffer 



and Slipp, 1948, American Midi. Nat, 39: 289 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. 



(Washington State; southern California)]. — Miller and Kellogg, 1955, 



Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 205: 664 [N. Pacific: Kanatak, Alaska to 



Guatemala]. 

 Globicephala] scamonii [sic], Nishiwaki, 1957, Coll. Rep. Fish Sci. Tokyo 



Univ., p. 152 [N. Pacific: Japan]. 

 Globicephalus scammoni, True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 139, 185, 



pi. 42, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) [characters; comparisons]. 

 G[lobicephala] scammoni, Sowerby, 1926, China Journ. Sci. Arts, 5: 200 



[N. Pacific: China (Gutslaff Island, Yangtze Estuary)]. — Fraser, 1950, 



Adantide Rep., 1 : 49, 53, 58, 59 [comparisons; doubtfully distinct from 



macrorhyncha Gray]. 

 Globicephala scammoni, Norris and Prescott, 1961, Univ. California Publ. 



Zool., 63: 293, 300, 336 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (southern California); 



characters; habits]. — Sergeant, 1962, Journ. Mammal., 43: 396 



[characters; comparisons]. 

 G[lobicephalus] m[elas] scammonii, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern 



Europe and northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 633 [N. Pacific: distribution 



