Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède 1804)

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 : 727

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scientific name	Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède 1804)
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Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède 1804) View in CoL

[Delphinus] commersonii Lacépède 1804 View in CoL , Hist. Nat. Cetacees: 317.

Type Locality: Chile, "de la terre de Feu et dans le détroit de Magellan" (= Tierra del Fuego, Straits of Magellan).

Vernacular Names: Commerson's Dolphin.

Synonyms: Cephalorhynchus floweri (Moreno 1892) .

Distribution: Argentina to Chile: Gulf of San Matias, Argentina, to the Chilean side of the Straits of Magellan; South Shetland, Falkland and Kerguelen Isls. See Brownell and Praderi (1985) for further discussion. Rice (1998:101) recognized that the Falkland and Kerguelen Island populations are disjunct and suggested that they differ in subspecies, the Falkland population being C. c. commersonii and the Kerguelen population being C. c. subsp.

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

Discussion: Reviewed by Goodall et al. (1988).

References

Brownell, R. L., Jr., and R. Praderi. 1985. Distribution of Commerson's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii, and the rediscovery of the type of Lagenorhynchus floweri. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (Toyko), 36: 153 - 164.

Goodall, R. N. P., A. R. Galeazzi, S. Leatherwood, K. W. Miller, I. S. Cameron, R. K. Kastelein, and A. P. Sobral. 1988. Studies of Commerson's dolphins, Cephalorhynchus commersonii, off Tierra del Fuego, 1976 - 1984, with a review of information on the species in the South Atlantic. Pp. 3 - 70, in Biology of the genus Cephalorhynchus (R. L. Brownell, Jr., and G. P. Donovan, eds.). Reports of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue, 9: 1 - 344.

Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world: Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication, 4: 1 - 230.