Globicephala macrorhynchus
J. E. Gray, 1847
Short-finned Pilot Whale
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).
Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 929
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Cetacea |
| Infraorder | : Odontoceti |
| Superfamily | : Delphinoidea |
| Family | : Delphinidae |
| Subfamily | : Globicephalinae |
| Genus | : Globicephala |
Species status
Authority citation
Gray, J.E. 1847-01-29. On the cetaceous animals. Pp. 13–53 in Richardson, J. and Gray, J.E. 1844-1875. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. I. Mammalia, Birds. E. W. Janson, London, not continuously paginated pp.
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Original name as described
Globiocephalus macrorhynchus
Other common names
Pacific Pilot Whale · Southern Blackfish · Southern Pothead Whale
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1846.8.9.2 (= RCS 3000)
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
Type locality
"South Seas."
Biogeographic realm
Marine
Country distribution
American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Brazil · British Virgin Islands · Brunei · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cape Verde · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Christmas Island · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cote d'Ivoire · Cuba · Curaçao · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · East Timor · Ecuador · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Fiji · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · Jamaica · Japan · Kenya · Kiribati · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mayotte · Mexico · Micronesia · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · North Korea · Northern Marianas · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Puerto Rico · Republic of the Congo · Russia · Réunion · Saba · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Sint Eustatius · Sint Maarten · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · South Korea · Spain · Sri Lanka · Suriname · São Tomé and Príncipe · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · Togo · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Turks and Caicos Islands · Tuvalu · United States · United States Virgin Islands · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Montserrat? · Norfolk Island? · Tokelau? · Uruguay?
Subregion distribution
USA(FL, HI, AK?, CA?, GA?, MA?, NC?, SC?)
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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Names and synonyms
Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.
Total: 32 names and synonyms.
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