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WoRMS taxon details
Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848)
AphiaID: 254980
AphiaID: 254980
| 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) > Lagenorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lagenorhynchus Gray, 1846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Delphinus chilensis Philippi, 1896 (synonym) Phocaena australis Peale, 1848 (basionym) Phocoena australis Peale, 1848 (synonym) Sagmatias amblodon Cope, 1866 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Peale, T. R. (1848). United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. VIII. Mammalia and ornithology. Cetacea:32--36. page(s): 33, pl.6, fig.2 [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: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., 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] additional source: Goodall, R. N. P., K. S. Norris, W. E. Schevill, F. Fraga, R. Praderi, M. A Iñeguez, Jr., and J. C. de Haro. (1997). Review and update on the biology of Peale's dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis. Report of the International Whaling Commission 47:777--796. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Falkland Islands [details] South America [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: coastal, in bays, around islands and over continental shelf. [details] Holotype: Not preserved. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: South Atlantic Ocean, off coast of Patagonia, Argentina, one day's sail north of the Straits of Le Maire between Staten Island and Cape San Diego. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254980 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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