Genus Peponocephala Nishiwaki & Norris, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peponocephala Nishiwaki, M. & Norris, K.S. 1966. A new genus, Peponocephala, for the odontocete cetacean species Electra electra. Science Reports of the Whales Research Institute Tokyo 20: 95-100 [95] [nom. nov. for Electra Gray, 1866].
• Electra Gray, J.E. 1866. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum. London : British Museum vii 402 pp. [268] [junior homonym of Electra Lamouroux, 1816].

  Type species:

   Lagenorhynchus electra Gray, 1846 by Linnaean tautonymy.

  Secondary source:

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

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Dec-2010		07-Jul-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)