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Delphinus siculus Rafinesque 



Delphinus siculus Rafinesque, 1810, Caratteri di alcimi nuovi gen. et sp. 

 anim. et piant. della Sicilia, p. 5 [N. Atlantic: Italy (type locality; 

 Sicily, Mediterranean Sea); work not seen]. — True, 1903, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 314 ["probably . . . same as Tursiops 

 truncatus"]. 



Delphinus tursio Fabricius 



Delphinus tursio Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 49 [N. Atlantic: 

 Greenland (type locality : on the high seas) ; type a composite of 

 descriptions from authors and the "nesarnak" of Greenland Eskimos]. — 

 True, 1903, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 313 [not a Tursiops]. 



Delphinus nesarnac Lesson, 1827, Manuel Mamm., p. 408 [new name for 

 Delphinus tursio Fabricius (not D. nesarnack Lacepede, 1804)]. 



[Delphinus] Fabricii, Billberg, 1828, Synopsis faunae Scandinavian, p. 34 

 [new name for Delphinus tursio Fabricius]. 



Epiodon Rafinesque 



Epiodon Rafinesque, 1814, Precis des decouvertes et travaux somiologi- 

 ques . . . p. 13 [type species: Epiodon urganantus Rafinesque]. 



Epiodon urganantus Rafinesque 



Epiodon urganantus Rafinesque, 1814, Precis des decouvertes et travaux 

 somiologiques ... p. 13 [Italy (type locality: Sicily, Mediter- 

 ranean Sea) ; type seen at sea] . 



Delphinus epiodon Desmarest, 1822, Mammalogie, p. 521 [new name for 

 Epiodon urganantus Rafinesque]. 



Remarks : Described as a new genus and species. Whatever the animal 

 may be, it positively is not a goose-beaked whale or any hyperoodontid (with 

 which it is classified by modern authors). Epiodon urganantus is described 

 as lacking a dorsal fin, having several upper but no lower teeth, and its 

 upper jaw extending forward beyond the lower. 



Monodon spurius Fabricius 



Monodon spurius Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 31 [N. Atlantic 

 (type locality: the Greenland seas); name based on the "anarnak" of 

 Greenland]. 



Anarnak groenlandicus Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xxxviii, 

 164 [new generic and specific names for Monodon spurius Fabricius 

 based on the Greenland "anarnak"]. — Sonnini (Lacepede), 1804, 

 Nat. Hist. Cetacees, pp. 35, 252. 



Delphinus anarnacus Desmarest, 1822, Mammalogie, p. 520 [new name for 

 Monodon spurius Fabricius based on the "anarnac" of Greenland]. 



