Subspecies Globicephala melas edwardii (A. Smith, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phocaena edwardii Smith, A. 1834. An epitome of African Zoology; or a concise description of the objects of the animal Kingdom inhabiting Africa, its islands and seas. African Zoology 2 3(2): 234-243 [239].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 53.9.18.26 stuffed skin with skull separate, Slang-kop, near Cape of Good Hope.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, migratory, oceanic, pelagic, predator.

History of changes