WoRMS taxon details
Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804)
AphiaID: 254976
AphiaID: 254976
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Cephalorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cephalorhynchus Gray, 1846 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cephalorhynchus commersoni Yanez, 1948 (synonym) Delphinus commersonii Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri Moreno, 1892 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus floweri Moreno, 1892 (synonym) Phocoena commersonii Lesson, 1827 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, Histoire naturelle, vol. 37:317. [details] basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Cephalorhynchus commersonii commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) Subspecies Cephalorhynchus commersonii kerguelensis Robineau, Goodall, Pichler & Baker, 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctica [details] Falkland Islands [details] Kerguelen Islands [details] South America [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 37 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: mostly coastal [details] Holotype: None. Name based on animals seen and described by Commerson in a manuscript addressed to M. Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Chile [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Cephalorhynchus commersonii. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254976 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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