Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Synonyms: Delphinus intermedius Gray 1827, Feresa intermedia Gray 1827, Feresa occulta Jones and Packard 1956, Globiocephalus intermedius Gray 1827, Orca (Feresa) intermedia Gray 1827, Orca intermedia Gray 1827
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1874. Description of the skull of a new species of dolphin (Feresa attenuata). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:238-239
Belongs to Feresa according to T. A. Jefferson 2021
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Bolaños and Villaroel-Marin 2003, Fischer 1829, Gray 1850, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Gray 1871, Gray 1874, Gray 1846, Hershkovitz 1966, Mead and Brownell 2005, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: none
Type specimens:
- Feresa attenuata: BMNH 74.11.25.1
- Delphinus intermedius: BMNH 1672a-74.11.25.1, a skull.
- Feresa occulta:
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Brazil (2), India (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Tanzania (1), United States (2: Florida, Oregon)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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