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15-OCT-2012

Heaviside's Dolphins

The Haviside's Dolphin is actually named after a Captain Haviside who brought a specimen from Namibia to the United Kingdom early in the 19th Century.
However, its name was once misspelled Heaviside, after a prominent surgeon, Captain Heaviside who collected cetacean and other animal species.
The latter name stuck and is the most common in the literature.

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