Australophocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 358

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scientific name

Australophocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)
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Australophocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912) View in CoL . Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., Buenos Aires, 23:269.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, "capturado en Punta Colares, cerca de Quilmes" .

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; Uruguay, Argentina; Falkland, South Georgia, Heard, Macquarie and the Auckland Isis, perhaps Kerguelen Isis. Perhaps circumpolar, see Baker (1977).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: stornii .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Brownell (1975a, Mammalian Species, 66, as Phocoena dioptrica ). Barnes (1985) proposed Australophocaena to house this species. Phocaena obtusata is synonymous with Cephalorhynchus eutropia . See Goodall et al. (1988).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Phocoenidae

Genus

Australophocaena

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