A Porpoise, Australophocaena dioptrica , Previously Identified As Phocoena spinipinnis , From Heard Island

• Main Authors: Brownell, Robert L., Jr., Heyning, John, Perrin, William
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1989
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Burton; Fossa; Heard Island; Lahille
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/85; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usdeptcommercepub/article/1095/viewcontent/Brownell_MMS_1989_A_Porpoise_Australophocaena.pdf

Guiler, Burton and Gales (1987) reported a cranium (Tasmanian Museum No. A141 1) they identified as belonging to Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 from Heard Island (53°S 73°30’E). They noted that P. spinipinnis was previously known only from the cold-temperate coast...