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Lagenorhynchus obscurus
Description
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828). Spicil. Zool., 1:2.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.
DISTRIBUTION: Coastal temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
COMMENT: Included in cruciger by Hershkovitz, 1966:65, but considered a distinct species by Rice, 1977; Brownell, 1974, in Brown, et al., eds., Antarctic Mammals, Folio 18, Amer. Geogr. Soc., 19 pp. 11 pls.; IWC, 1975, J. Fish Res. Bd. Can., 32:875-983. Includes fitzroyi; see Rice, 1977.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002012006001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 293-294, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C48BD20FFBFFFB2FFEA4163CA624C0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Lagenorhynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Species
- obscurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Rice, D. W. 1977. A list of the marine mammals of the world. Third ed. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS SSRF- 711: 1 - 15.
- Brownell, R. L., Jr. 1974. Small odontocetes of the Antarctic. Pp. 13 - 19, in Antarctic mammals (S. G. Brown, R. L. Brownell, Jr., A. W. Erickson, R. J. Hofman, G. A. Llano, and N. A. Mackintosh, eds.). American Geographical Society, New York, Antarctic Map Folio Series, Folio 18, 19 pp.