Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865

Description

Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:228, figs 1-5.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, "captured in the mouth of the River Plata".

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: coastal temperate waters of South America, from Rio Urucanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil to Tierra del Fuego to Paita, Peru.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: philippii.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Brownell and Praderi (1984, Mammalian Species, 217). A recent specimen referred to this species from Heard Island has been reidentified as Australophocaena dioptrica (Brownell et al., 1989).

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 359, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Family
Phocoenidae
Genus
Phocoena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Burmeister
Species
spinipinnis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993