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Genus Peponocephala Nishiwaki & Norris, 1966

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Genus Peponocephala Nishiwaki & Norris, 1966

  • 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.
    Compiled from 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.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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

  • 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