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D. tursio, Bonnaterre; vulg. le Souffleur; Lacep. XV. f.2. (The 
Great Dolphin). Snout short, broad, and depressed; from twenty~ 
one to twenty-four teeth throughout, conical, and often blunted. In- 
dividuals have been seen fifteen feet in length, and it appears that 
they are found in the Mediterranean as well as in the Ocean.* 
D. dubius, Cuv. Only thirty-six or thirty-seven teeth through- 
out, but as fine and pointed as those of the Common Dolphin, which 
it also resembles in its colours, 
D. frontalis, Duss. Very similar to the preceding, but coloured 
somewhat differently, and has thirty-four teeth throughout. Dis- 
covered by M. Dussumier, at the Cape de Verd Islands. 
D, frontatus, Cuv. But twenty-one teeth throughout, larger 
than those of the preceding; the muzzle is also longer and more 
compressed; its origin is not known. 
D. plumbeus, Dussum. The muzzle with the same compressed 
form, but armed throughout with thirty-seven teeth. From Mala- 
bar.} 
D. velox, Dussum. A somewhat longer muzzle, and forty-one 
teeth throughout. From Ceylon. 
D. longirostris, Dussum. Surpasses even the Common Dolphin 
in the number of its teeth, having from fifty-five to sixty throughout. 
From the coast of Malabar. 
M. de Blainville separates from this first division of Dolphins, under 
the name of DeLpHinoruyNcuus, those species in which the snout, 
though long and slender, is not separated from the forehead by a decided 
furrow. One of them, 
D. micropterus, Cuv., was thrown upon the coast of France; it is 
remarkable for its dorsal fin, which is also placed very far back. 
It grows to the length of fifteen feet, and loses all its teeth at 
an early age. § 
D. rostratus, Cuv. A slender muzzle, and externally all of a 
piece with the head; twenty-one teeth throughout. Its dorsal fin 
is of the usual size.|| 
* The Whale or Capidolio of Belon, and the Orea, of the same author, which very 
probably is that of the antients, belong also to the division of the Dolphins with 
snouts, and are much larger than the above mentioned species; but their characters 
are not sufficiently determined. The Dauphin feres of Bonnaterre is probable re- 
ferrable to one of the two. 
+ I suspect this D. plumbeus to be the same as the D. malaianus of MM. Lesson 
and Garnier, Voy. de la Cog. pl. ix. f. 5. 
{ We cannot, in this work, give a place to species which have been only seen at a 
distance, and of which no part has been produced; we therefore mention, merely as 
indications, the D. albigena, Quoy and Gaym., Voy. de Freye. pl. xi. or D. super- 
ciliosus, Lesson and Garn., Voy. de la Coq. pl. ix. f. 2—The D. cruciger, Quoy and 
Gaym. Ib. f. 3 and 4, which is at least closely allied to the D. bivittatus, Less. and 
Garn. f. 3.—The D. lunatus, Less. and Garn. f. 4.—Still less can we admit species 
which have not even been figured. 
§ Blainville, Nouv. Bullet. des Sc. IV. p. 139, and Fr. Cuv. Mammif. under the 
improper name of D. de Dale, which belongs to the Hyperoodon. 
N.B. The D. rostratus of Shaw is the gangeticus. 
|| Add the Dauphin couronne, Freminville, Nouv. Bullet. des Sc. III. No. 56, 
leak deve: 
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