Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 355

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Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)
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Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) View in CoL . Reise nach Ostind. China Rostock, 1:7.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Guangdong Prov., Zhujiang Kou (mouth of Canton River) .

DISTRIBUTION: Indian Ocean: coastal waters and rivers from False Bay, South Africa, east to S China and Moreton Bay, Queensland ( Australia, see Corkeron, 1990).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: borneensis , lentiginosa, plumbea , zambezicus .

COMMENTS: See Perrin (1975) who placed Delphinus malayanus in Stenella attenuata , as is done here; Pilleri and Gihr (1973-74) considered borneensis , plumbea and lentiginosa to be distinct species. Mitchell (1975) combined those species into S. chinensis ; Brownell (1975b) included Stenopontistes zambezicus as a synonym of S. plumbea .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Sousa

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