Taxonomy Profile: Sousa chinensis (Osbeck 1765)

Sousa chinensis: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Species
Synonym(s):
Sousa borneensis
Lydekker 1901
Sousa huangi
Wang Peilie 1999
Delphinus chinensis
Osbeck 1765
Delphinus sinensis
Desmarest 1822
Steno chinensis
Osbeck 1765
Sotalia borneensis
Lydekker 1901
Common Name(s):
Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin []
Chinese white dolphin []
Pacific humpback dolphin []
Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Sousa chinensis: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Tetrapoda
Class : Mammalia
mammals |
mamífero |
mammifères |
Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Eutheria
Order : Cetacea
cetaceans |
whales |
dolphins |
marine mammals |
porpoises |
baleia |
cetáceo |
golfinho |
baleines |
cétacés |
dauphins |
mammfères marins |
marsouins |
Suborder : Odontoceti
toothed whales |
Family : Delphinidae
dolphins |
killer whales |
pilot whales |
marine dolphins |
Genus : Sousa
humpbacked dolphins |
Species : Sousa chinensis
Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin |
Chinese white dolphin |
Pacific humpback dolphin |
Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin |
Sousa chinensis Direct Children(s):
Sousa chinensis taiwanensis
(Wang Yang and Hung 2015)
Sousa chinensis: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Dr. James G. Mead
Notes:
Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Expert:
Alfred L. Gardner
Notes:
Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Source:
List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies
Acquired:
2019-04-16
Notes:
Committee on Taxonomy. 2018. List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy, www.marinemammalscience.org, consulted on 16 April 2019
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2000-01-01 / 2000-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Common Names of Mammals of the World
Page(s):
xiv + 204
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-383-3/
Notes:
With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Rice, Dale W.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1998-01-01 / 1998-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4
Page(s):
ix + 231
Publisher:
The Society for Marine Mammalogy
Publication Place:
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-891276-03-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Jefferson, Thomas A., and Leszek Karczmarski
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2001-01-23 / 2001-01-23
Article/Chapter Title:
Sousa chinensis
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammalian Species, no. 655
Page(s):
1-9
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0076-3519
Notes:
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Frère, Céline H., Peter T. Hale, Lindsay Porter, Victor C. Cockcroft, and Merel L. Dalebout
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2008-04-30 / 2008-04-30
Article/Chapter Title:
Phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA sequences suggests revision of humpback dolphin (Sousa spp.) taxonomy is needed
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Marine & Freshwater Research, vol. 59, no. 3
Page(s):
259-268
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1323-1650
Notes:
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Order Cetacea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1
Page(s):
723-743
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2018-01-01 / 2018-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd edition
Page(s):
xxxi + 1157
Publisher:
Elsevier
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
978-0-12-8043271/
Notes:
Species and classification provided on pages xxix-xxxi
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wang, John Y., Shih Chu Yang, and Samuel K. Hung
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2015-12-01 / 2015-12-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Diagnosability and description of a new subspecies of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765), from the Taiwan Strait
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Zoological Studies, vol. 54
Page(s):
36
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1810-522X
Notes:
DOI: 10.1186/s40555-015-0115-x
Reference for:
Sousa chinensis
Sousa chinensis: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Indo-West Pacific
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Sousa chinensis: Comments
Comment:
Status: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Data Deficient
Comment:
Comments: See Perrin (1975) who placed Delphinus malayanus in Stenella attenuata, as is done here; Pilleri and Gihr (1973-74) considered borneensis, plumbea and lentiginosa to be distinct species. Mitchell (1975a) combined those species into S. chinensis; Brownell (1975b) included Stenopontistes zambezicus as a synonym of S. plumbea. Wang Peilie (1999:299) described Sousa huangi on the basis of an immature specimen. Because we feel that immature specimens of Sousa do not show diagnostic characters, w...