Cetacea name details
Clymenia similis Gray, 1868
383784 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:383784)
unaccepted > unjustified emendation
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J.E.; Wing, W. (1868). Synopsis of the species of whales and dolphins in the collection of the British Museum. (Illustrated with 37 plates, by the late William Wing.). 1-10, pls: 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15869421 [details]
Taxonomic remark Unavailable name, misidentification (based on habitat of Cape of Good Hope). “Skull like C. obscura, but palate...
Taxonomic remark Unavailable name, misidentification (based on habitat of Cape of Good Hope). “Skull like C. obscura, but palate contracted behind; side of pterygoid bone keeled. Hab. Cape of Good Hope.” True (1889:99–100) states that for C. similis the “skull on which this species is founded can not be distinguished from skulls of L. obliquidens”, and it “agrees in many points with L. obscurus…and it is not at all impossible that the skulls now distributed among the three species, obscurus, obliquidens, and similis, represent only the individual variations of a single species.” See Appendix 2 for more information. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Clymenia similis Gray, 1868. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383784 on 2024-11-20
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Gray, J.E.; Wing, W. (1868). Synopsis of the species of whales and dolphins in the collection of the British Museum. (Illustrated with 37 plates, by the late William Wing.). 1-10, pls: 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15869421 [details]
taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
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Taxonomic remark Unavailable name, misidentification (based on habitat of Cape of Good Hope). “Skull like C. obscura, but palate contracted behind; side of pterygoid bone keeled. Hab. Cape of Good Hope.” True (1889:99–100) states that for C. similis the “skull on which this species is founded can not be distinguished from skulls of L. obliquidens”, and it “agrees in many points with L. obscurus…and it is not at all impossible that the skulls now distributed among the three species, obscurus, obliquidens, and similis, represent only the individual variations of a single species.” See Appendix 2 for more information. [details]
