Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824). Voy. Autour du Monde, sur Uranie et la Physicienne, Paris, Zool., p. 87.
TYPE LOCALITY: Pacific Ocean, 49° S., between Cape Horn and Australia.
DISTRIBUTION: Antarctic and cold temperate waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America.
COMMENT: Formerly included australis and obscurus; see Rice, 1977.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002012004001.