Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 359

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7155021

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scientific name

Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
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Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 View in CoL . 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) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Phocoenidae

Genus

Phocoena

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