Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Phocoenidae
- genus
- Phocoena
- species
- Phocoena spinipinnis
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
discussion
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).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: coastal temperate waters of South America, from Rio Urucanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil to Tierra del Fuego to Paita, Peru.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, " captured in the mouth of the River Plata ".
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: philippii.
Name
- Homonyms
- Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 1865