Species List

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Species that currently have their own pages on this blog - more to come.

• Amphiptera pacifica - Giglioli’s Whale
• Delphinus coronatus - Crowned Dolphin
• Delphinus minimus
• Delphinus rhinoceros - Rhinoceros Dolphin
• Sotalia tëuszii
  

 The map also lists whales that I haven't made pages for yet.

 

Species

- If this list isn't currently at at least 30 entries, it's still a work in progress -

This is not an exhaustive list and it's still growing, but these are all the species I've personally taken interest in as most of them are not obvious synonyms.

 

CN: Alugninich
BN: N/A
Year: prior to 1838?
Described by: M. de Chamisso
Publication I referenced; not the original: Compléments de Buffon, 1838, p. 567
Location: Kodiak
Length: 70ft
Description: See also Fchieduk and Agidagich, considered synonyms. A 70ft long whale with 4 teeth (2 in upper jaw, 2 in lower) that protrude forwards by 9 inches, and “two white stripes surrounding the body very obliquely”. Based on artistic depictions/carvings by the Aleuts. Compared to Monodon spurius of Fabricius, 1780 (nomen dubium, Northern Bottlenose Whale? Narwhal?) and Northern Bottlenose Whale.

 

BN: Delphinus bayeri
CN: Le Dauphin de Bayer (Bayer’s Dolphin)
Year: 1825
Described by: Giuseppe Antonio Risso
Publication: Publication I referenced; not the original: Compléments de Buffon, 1838, p. 618
Location: Mediterranean – stranded in Nice, France
Length: 42ft
Description: Like a Sperm Whale, the whale’s head makes up about a third of its body length. Along with this, “Its snout is very long, obtusely pointed, a little raised, and of the same shape as that of the common dolphin”. There are 34 sharp teeth on either side of the jaw, and it has a triangular dorsal fin. It has countershading, having a dark blue body and a whitish underside.

Delphinus bivittatus

BN: Delphinus bivittatus
CN: Doppelschleier Delphin (Double Veiled Dolphin)
Year: 1838
Described by: R. P. Lesson
Publication I referenced; not the original: Compléments de Buffon, 1838
Location: 140 leagues from the Falkland Islands, coming from Cape Horn
Length: 2½ feet
Description: Widely regarded as a poorly observed/described Hourglass Dolphin. 

Delphinus rhinoceros

BN: Delphinus rhinoceros, Oxypterus rhinoceros, Cetodipteros rhinoceros
CN: Rhinoceros Dolphin
Year: 1824
Described by: Jean René Constant Quoy & Joseph Paul Gaimard
Publication: Voyage Autour Du Monde, 1824, page 86 
Location: middle of the Pacific
Length: 3 meters
Description: A large delphinoid about 3 meters long. Completely black except for mottled white patches on the front half of its body. On its head is a second dorsal fin.