Lagenorhynchus australis (Peak, 1848)

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 : 353

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154931

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scientific name

Lagenorhynchus australis (Peak, 1848)
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Lagenorhynchus australis (Peak, 1848) View in CoL . Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8:33, pl. 6.

TYPE LOCALITY: "South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Patagonia", Argentina, 1 days sail north of the Straits of LeMaire .

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

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: amblodon , chilöensis.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Lagenorhynchus

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