Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) . Hist. Nat. Cetacees, p. 317.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, "de la terre de Feu et dans le détroit de Magellan" (= Tierra del Fuego, Straits of Magellan) .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina to Chile: Gulf of San Matias, Argentina, to the Chilean side of the Straits of Magellan; South Shetland, Falkland and Kerguelen Isis. See Brownell and Praderi (1985) for further discussion.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: floweri .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Goodall et al. (1988).