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Bahia de Conception, i.e., Talcahuano); name based on dolphins 

 seen at sea]; 1834, Complements Buff on, l(Cetaces): 239 [S. Pacific: 

 Talcaguana Bay, Conception]. — True, 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 16: 138, 143 Terroneously regarded as a name "not based on 

 specimens"]. — Cabrera, 1961, Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat. 

 Bernardino Rivadavia, 4: 619 ["perhaps a young individual" [of 

 Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister]] . 

 Phocaena lunata Philippi, 1893, Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, (1), Zool., 6:11, 

 pi. 3, fig. 3 (animal ex Lesson) [not identifiable with any known Chilean 

 dolphin]. 



Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot 



Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot, 1826, Voyage ... la Coquille, 

 Zool., 1 : 183 TS. Pacific: Tuamotu Archipelago (type locality: 18° S., 

 137° W. (Clermont-Tonnerre Island)); name based on animals seen 

 at sea]. — Lesson, 1826, Ferussac Bull. Sci. Nat., 7: 395 [characters]. 



Delphinorhynchus maculatus, Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de 

 Buffon, pp. 440 (name), 210 [characters]. 



Delphinus maculiventer Owen 

 Delphinus (Steno?) maculiventer Owen, 1846, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 



6(1): 21 [Indian: India (type locality: Vizagapatam, Madras, Bay 



of Bengal)]. 

 PSotalia maculiventer, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1851, Checklist of 



Palaearctic and Indian mammals, p. 734, 780 [doubtfully included in 



Sotalia in text (p. 734) and index (p. 780)]. 



Delphinus minimus Lesson 

 Delphinus minimus Lesson, 1826a, Voyage ... la Coquille, Zool., 1: 185 

 [S. Pacific (type locality: near Solomon Islands); types, thousands of 

 dolphins of which the largest did not exceed two feet in length, seen 

 at sea about the ship]; 1826b, Ferussac Bull. Sci. Nat., 7: 373 

 [characters]. 



Delphinus niger Lacepede 

 Delphinus niger Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist., 4: 475 TN. Pacific: 

 Japan (type locality) ; name based on a Japanese drawing of a dolphin]. 



Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard 



Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard, 1824, Voyage Uranie, Zool., 

 p. 86, pi. 11, fig. 1 (animal) [N. Pacific (type locality: 5°28' N., between 

 the Hawaiian Islands and Australia); type an animal seen at sea]. 



Oxypterus rhinoceros, Lesson, 1827, Manuel Mamm., p. 411 [classification]; 

 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, p. 249 [characters]. 



Remarks: Described as twice the size of a common porpoise and with 

 two dorsal fins. 



