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 cruciger - Cross-Bearing 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. The location, however, does not align with the Northern Bottlenose Whale's currently known range.

 

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.