Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865

Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:228, figs 1-5. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, "captured in the mouth of the River Plata". DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: coastal temperate waters of South America, from Rio Urucanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James G. Mead, Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Phocoenidae
Phocoena
Phocoena spinipinnis
Heard Island
Phocoena phocoena
Tierra del Fuego
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7155021
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FB7D87D0FFD0FFA2E7A9F84B3F97FD79
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Summary:Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:228, figs 1-5. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, "captured in the mouth of the River Plata". DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: coastal temperate waters of South America, from Rio Urucanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil to Tierra del Fuego to Paita, Peru. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: philippii. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Brownell and Praderi (1984, Mammalian Species, 217). A recent specimen referred to this species from Heard Island has been reidentified as Australophocaena dioptrica (Brownell et al., 1989). Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 359, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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