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Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865) 
AphiaID: 343898

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Phocoenidae (Family) > Phocoena (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1816
Synonymised
taxa		  Acanthodelphis (Phocaena) philippii Philippi, 1896 (synonym)
 Acanthodelphis spinipinnis Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Cephalorhynchus philippii Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
 Phocaena philippii Perez Canto, in Philippi, 1893 (synonym)
 Phocaena spinipennis Van Beneden, 1868 (misspelling)
 Phocaena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Burmeister, H. (1865). Description of a new species of porpoise in the Museum of Buenos Ayres. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16:132--134. [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: 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: Brownell, R. L., Jr. and R. Praderi. (1984). Phocoena spinipinnis. Mammalian Species 217:1--4. [details]

additional source: Loughlin, T. R. and M. A. Perez. (1985). Mesoplodon stejnegeri. Mammalian Species 250:1--6. [details]

additional source: Nagorsen, D. (1985). Kogia simus. Mammalian Species 239:1--6. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English black porpoise  [details]
English Burmeister's porpoise  [details]
French marsouin de Burmeister  [details]
Portuguese boto de dorsal espinhosa  [details]
Portuguese marsopa espinhosa  [details]
Spanish chanchillo  [details]
Spanish chancho marino  [details]
Spanish marsopa de Burmeister  [details]
Spanish marsopa espinosa  [details]
Spanish tonina espinosa  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Subantarctic Waters [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: South America, from Brazil to Peru [details]

Habitat: coastal [details]

Holotype: Skull and mounted skin in Buenos Aires Museum, captured alive by fishermen. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: Mouth of La Plata River, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [details]
Image 
Phocoena spinipinnis
Phocoena spinipinnis
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-26 18:11:19
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343898
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-04-11 11:37:23Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865). 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=343898 on 2013-05-22
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