Lagenorhynchus electra Gray, 1846
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Delphinidae
- genus
- Peponocephala
- species
- Peponocephala electra
Name
- Homonyms
- Lagenorhynchus electra Gray, 1846
- Common names
- melon-headed whale in English
- melon-headed whale in English
Bibliographic References
- Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Volume 1: Mammalia and Birds.
- Jefferson, Thomas A., and Nélio B. Barnes, 1997: Peponocephala electra. Mammalian Species, no. 553. 1-6.
- 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.
- Rice, Dale W., 1998: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4. ix + 231.