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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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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