DELPHINUS. TURSIOPS. 5d 
nove-zelandie Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astrolabe, Mamm., 1830, 
p. 149. 
jamira Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zodl., 1846, p. 41, pl. 23. 
albrinanus Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., Mamm., v, 1848, 111, p. 33. 
algertensis Loche, Rev. Mag. Zodl., 1860, p. 474, pl. 22, fig. 1. 
forstert Gray, Cat. Cet., 1866, p. 248. 
major, moorit & walkerit Gray, Cat. Cet., 1866, pp. 396, 397. 
pomeegra Owen, Trans. Zodl. Soc., v1, 1866, p. 23, pls. 6. 8. 
batrd1 Dall, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Scien., v, 1873, p. 12. 
microps Burm. (nec Gray), Desc. Phys. Argent., 111, 1879, p. 534. 
juscus, sowerbianus, variegatus, batteatus, moschatus (La Font), 
Pischn, Act, soca dain. b0rd.,°¥;) ho8n,-p: 127). pls, 4, 5.6. 
marginatus, La Font., (nec Pucher.), Act. Soc. Linn. Bord., vr, 
D. 5 Lo. 
curvtrostris Riggio, Nat. Sicil., 11, 1883, p. 157, pl. 3. 
Common DOLPHIN. 
Type locality. Coast of Europe. 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Body slender; forehead forming an angle to the beak, 
which is long and slender; dorsal fin in center of back, narrow; pec- 
torals three times longer than broad, pointed. 
Color. Very variable; upper parts black and blackish gray; 
beneath white or greenish white; black, gray or greenish band from 
lower jaw to base of pectorals; orbital ring black, from which a black 
band extends forward to the base of the beak; margin of lower jaw 
black; elongate areas of light festoons of gray on sides, traversed by 
two longitudinal bands of gray or greenish gray. 
Measurements. Total length, 1382-2008; length of pectoral, 280- 
305; width of flukes, 393-450; height of dorsal, 177-203; blow-hole to 
end of nose, 330-350. 
25. Tursiops. Dolphins. 
21—21 25—25 
Rica, © genoa 
Tursiops Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1, 1855, p. 323. Type Del- 
phinus tursio Fabricius. 
Tursio Gray (nec Wagl.), List Spec. Mamm., Brit. Mus. 1843, pp. 
XXII, 105, Jd. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 254. 
= 84 to I00. 
Rostrum with moderate taper; no groove in palate; mandibular 
symphysis short jteeth stout; vertebre, C. 7, D. 13, L. 17, C. 27=64. 
Dorsal fin high, falcate. 
