Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

by John Edward Gray

Inhab. North Sea.

2. SOTALIA.

Sotalia, Gray, l. c. pp. 393, 401; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 6.

Dorsal fin distinct. Beak depressed, rather longer than the brain-cavity. Teeth slender, conical. Palate flat behind. Pectoral fin ovate, obliquely truncated at the end; hand shorter than the arm-bones. Carpal bones small. Scapula broad. Acromion broad.

Vertebræ 55:—C. 7. D. 12. L. 14. C. 22.

Scarcely distinct from Steno.

1. Sotalia guianensis.

Sotalia guianensis, Gray, l. c. p. 401; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 6.

Tursio guianensis, Gray, l. c. p. 257.

Delphinus guianensis, Van Beneden, Mém. Acad. Brux. p. 27, t. 2 (skeleton), tom. xvi. tab. 2. figs. 1 and 2.