Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829)
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Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) |
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Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) View in CoL . Règne Anim., Nouv. ed., 1:291.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope ("à découvert au Cap,". Almost certainly erroneous; unknown today from coast of Africa .
DISTRIBUTION: Indo-Pacific: warm-temperate to tropical waters; Persian Gulf to Malaysia, north coast of Java (Tas'an and Leatherwood, 1984), China, and Japan: coastal waters and some rivers.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.
SYNONYMS: asiaeorientalis ; mêlas Temminck (not Traill), sunameri .
COMMENTS: Includes as subspecies asiaeorientalis and sunameri . Reviewed by Pilleri and Gihr (1972, 1975:657, 673, 1980b). Van Bree (1973) considered asiaeorientalis to be of subspecific rank and sunameri to be synonymous with phocaenoides .
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