Species Feresa attenuata J.E. Gray, 1874

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CAVS: 1650

Species Feresa attenuata J.E. Gray, 1874

Pygmy Killer Whale

Feresa attenuata Gray, J.E. 1874. Description of the skull of a new species of dolphin (Feresa attenuata). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 238-239 [238] [posthumous paper].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1672a–74.11.25.1 skull only, South Seas.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [98]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical and temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)