Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Sousa Gray, 1866

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Genus Sousa Gray, 1866

  • Sousa Gray, J.E. 1866. Notes on the skulls of dolphins, or bottlenose whales, in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 211-216 [213] [erected as a subgenus of Steno Gray, 1846].
    Type species:
     Steno lentiginosus Gray, 1866 by original designation, see Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [67]
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Fraser, F.C. 1966. Comments on the Delphinoidea. pp. 7-31 in Norris, K.S. (ed.). Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Berkeley & Los Angeles : Univ. California Press
  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [18] (see for extralimital synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and warm temperate waters of eastern Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific Oceans only.


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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

  • China (People's Republic)

Distribution References

  • Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.
  • Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.