Lagenorhynchus australis Peale 1848

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 : 729

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329669

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scientific name

Lagenorhynchus australis Peale 1848
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Lagenorhynchus australis Peale 1848 View in CoL

Lagenorhynchus australis Peale 1848 View in CoL , Mammalia, in: Repts. U. S. Expl. Surv., Vol. 8: 33.

Type Locality: "South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Patagonia", Argentina, 1 day’s sail north of the Straits of LeMaire.

Vernacular Names: Peale's Dolphin.

Synonyms: Lagenorhynchus amblodon (Cope 1866) ; Lagenorhynchus chilensis (Philippi 1896) .

Distribution: Chile to Argentina: Valparaiso to Commodoro Rivadavia and Falkland Isls: Cold-temperate waters. One published (photograph) sighting in the tropical waters of the South Pacific, Cook Isls ( Leatherwood et al., 1991).

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

Discussion: Included in cruciger by Bierman and Slijper (1947) and Hershkovitz (1966 a:67), but considered a distinct species by Fraser (1966), Rice (1977), Brownell (1974), and Mitchell (1975 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

SubOrder

Odontoceti

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Lagenorhynchus

Loc

Lagenorhynchus australis Peale 1848

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Lagenorhynchus australis

Peale 1848: 33
1848
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