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--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Delphinidae
--> GENUS Globicephala
SPECIES Globicephala macrorhynchus
| Author: | Gray, 1846. | | Citation: | Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Erebus" and "Terror", 1: 33. | | Common Name: | Short-finned Pilot Whale | | Type Locality: | "South Seas". | | Distribution: | Worldwide: tropical and warm-temperate waters; cold-temperate waters of the N Pacific, where it appears to stray as far north as the Gulf of Alaska (Pike and MacAskie, 1969). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | See Van Bree (1971). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
brachypterus Cope, 1876
scammonii Cope, 1869
sieboldii Gray, 1846
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