Delphinus melas Traill, 1809
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Traill, T. S. T. (1809). Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. In a letter from Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. to Mr. Nicholson. <em>Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts.</em> 22: 81--83.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Delphinidae
- genus
- Globicephala
- species
- Globicephala melas
Name
- Homonyms
- Delphinus melas Traill, 1809
- Delphinus melas Temminck, 1841
- Common names
- long-finned pilot whale in English
Bibliographic References
- Hershkovitz, Philip, 1966: Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 246. viii + 259.
- Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1. 723-743.
- Traill, T. S. T. (1809). Description of a new species of whale, Delphinus melas. In a letter from Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. to Mr. Nicholson. <em>Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts.</em> 22: 81--83.