Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 736

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scientific name	Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865
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Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 228.

Type Locality: Argentina, Buenos Aires, "captured in the mouth of the River Plata".

Vernacular Names: Burmeister's Porpoise.

Synonyms: Phocoena philippii Perez Canto in Philippi 1896 .

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

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.

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