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Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848) 
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)
Tursio chiloensis Philippi, 1900 (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: 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]

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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English black-chinned dolphin  [details]
English Peale's dolphin  [details]
English Peale's porpoise  [details]
English southern white-sided dolphin  [details]
French dauphin de Peale  [details]
Spanish cahuel  [details]
Spanish delfín austral  [details]
Spanish llampa  [details]
Spanish tunina  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Falkland Islands [details]
South America [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
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]
Image 
Lagenorhynchus australis
Lagenorhynchus australis
added on 2009-02-14 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-05 18:39:27
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254980
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lagenorhynchus australis. 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=254980 on 2013-06-18
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