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Lagenorhynchus australis

Description

Lagenorhynchus australis (Peak, 1848). Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8:33, pl. 6.

TYPE LOCALITY: "South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Patagonia", Argentina, 1 days sail north of the Straits of LeMaire.

DISTRIBUTION: Chile to Argentina: Valparaiso to Commodoro Rivadavia and Falkland Isis: Cold-temperate waters. One published (photograph) sighting in the tropical waters of the South Pacific, Cook Isis (Leatherwood et al. (1991).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: amblodon, chilöensis.

COMMENTS: Included in cruciger by Bierman and Slijper (1947) and Hershkovitz (1966a:67), but considered a distinct species by Fraser (1966), Rice (1977), Brownell (1974), and Mitchell (1975).

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Lagenorhynchus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peak
Species
australis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lagenorhynchus australis (Peak, 1848) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993