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) .