Australophocaena dioptrica (Lahille 1912)
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Phocoenidae
- genus
- Australophocaena
- species
- Australophocaena dioptrica
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
discussion
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Brownell (1975 a, Mammalian Species, 66, as Phocoena dioptrica). Barnes (1985) proposed Australophocaena to house this species. Phocaena obtusata is synonymous with Cephalorhynchus eutropia. See Goodall et al. (1988).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; Uruguay, Argentina; Falkland, South Georgia, Heard, Macquarie and the Auckland Isis, perhaps Kerguelen Isis. Perhaps circumpolar, see Baker (1977).
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires, " capturado en Punta Colares, cerca de Quilmes ".
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: stornii.