Genus GLOBICEPHALA Lesson, 1828 



There appear to be two well-defined species, the ranges 

 of which overlap off the middle Atlantic coast of the 

 United States, off southern Europe, off South Africa, and 

 perhaps elsewhere (van Bree 1971). 



Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809) (longfin pilot 



whale). 



Nominate subspecies in the cool temperate North 

 Atlantic Ocean; G. m. edwardii A. Smith, 1834, 

 throughout cool temperate waters of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. The validity of the subspecific distinc- 

 tion is questionable. Occurred in the North Pacific 

 (near Japan) until at least the 10th century A.D. 

 (Kasuya 1975). 



Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 (shortfin 



pilot whale). 

 Tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlan- 

 tic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. Globicephala 

 sieboldii Gray, 1846, of the North Pacific is con- 

 specific with G. macrorhynchus, although it may be 

 recognizable at the subspecific level. (The specific 

 name is usually spelled macrorhyncha, but it is a 

 noun in apposition, not an adjective, so must retain 

 its original gender.) 



Genus ORCINUS Fitzinger. 1860 



Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) (killer whale). 

 All oceans, chiefly in coastal waters and cooler 

 regions. 



Genus ORCAELLA Gray, 1866 



Orcaella brevirostris (Gray, 1866) (Irrawaddy dol- 

 phin; lumbalumba). 



Coastal waters from the Bay of Bengal east to New 

 Guinea and northern Australia; ascends far up the 

 Mekong, Irrawaddy, Ganges, and other rivers. 



Genus PHOCOENA G. Cuvier, 1817 



The genus includes four species (Norris and McFar- 

 land 1958; Noble and Fraser 1971). 



Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) (harbor por- 

 poise). 



Coastal waters of the North Atlantic from Delaware 

 and Senegal north to Davis Strait, Iceland, and the 

 White Sea; coastal waters of the North Pacific from 

 Japan and Baja California north to Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. An isolated population in the Black Sea has 

 been named P. p. relicta Abel, 1905. 



Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958 (vaquita; 

 cochito; Gulf of California porpoise). 



Upper Gulf of California; sight records farther south 



are questionable. 



Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 (spectacled por- 

 poise). 

 Coast of Argentina and Uruguay; the Falkland Is- 

 lands; and South Georgia. 



Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 (black por- 

 poise). 



East coast of South America from Uruguay to 

 Patagonia; west coast from Paita, Peru, to Valdivia, 

 Chile. 



Genus NEOPHOCAENA Palmer, 1899 



Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) (finless 



porpoise). 



Warm coastal waters and certain rivers from Pakis- 

 tan east to Korea, Japan, Borneo, and Java. (The 

 type-specimen allegedly came from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, but Peter Best (pers. commun.) stated 

 that there are no indisputable South African 

 records.) Specimens from China and Japan differ 

 from Indian Ocean specimens, and are best regarded 

 as a subspecies, N. p. asiae orient alls (Pilleri and 

 Gihr, 1971), rather than a full species as originally 

 described (van Bree 1973). More recently Pilleri and 

 Gihr (1975) have differentiated three allopatric 

 forms which they arbitrarily rank as species: N. 

 phocaenoides from Pakistan to Borneo, N. 

 asiaeorientalis from China, and N. sunameri Pilleri 

 and Gihr, 1975, from Japan and Korea. Their pub- 

 lished data are inadequate to reveal whether the 

 Japanese and Chinese populations are sufficiently 

 separable to warrant recognition of sunameri even as 

 a subspecies. 



Genus PHOCOENOIDES Andrews, 1911 



Phocaenoides dallii (True, 1885) (Dall porpoise; 



whiteflank porpoise). 

 Immediate offshore waters of the North Pacific from 

 Japan and southern California north to the southern 

 Bering Sea. "True's porpoise" is a color phase 

 localized in Japanese waters. 



Family MONODONTIDAE 



Some authors have included the narwhal and beluga in 

 the family Delphinidae. 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS Lacepede, 1804 



Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) (beluga; belukha; 



white whale). 

 Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas; including Okhotsk 

 and Bering Seas, and James Bay; isolated pop- 

 ulations occur in Cook Inlet, Alaska, and the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence; ascends several hundred miles up 

 larger rivers of Siberia and Alaska. Some authors 

 recognize three subspecies: a large one, D. I. 

 dorofeevi Barabash and Klumov, 1935, from the 



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