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Lagenorhynchus cruciger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 
AphiaID: 383563

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 albigena Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (synonym)
 Delphinus bivittatus Lesson & Garnot, 1826 (Synonym)
 Delphinus cruciger d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1847 (basionym)
 Delphinus cruciger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (basionym)
 Electra clancula Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Electra cruciger Gray, 1870 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus latifrons True, 1889 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus supercillosus Trouessart, 1904 (misspelling)
 Lagenorhynchus wilsoni Lille, 1915 (synonym)
 Phocaena crucigera Philippi, 1893 (synonym)
 Phocaena d'orbignyi Philippi, 1893 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Quoy and Gaimard. (1824). Voyage autour du monde..l'Oranie et la Physicienne,... Zoologie:87, pl.2, fig. 3,4. [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., A. N. Baker, P. B. Best, M. Meyer and N. Miyazaki. (1997). On the biology of the hourglass dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824). Report of the International Whaling Commission 47:985--999. [details]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch zandloperdolfijn  [details]
English hourglass dolphin  [details]
English sea skunk  [details]
English springer  [details]
French crucigere  [details]
French dauphin à museau court  [details]
Norwegian grindval  [details]
Spanish delfín cruzado  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Antarctica (Large Marine Ecosystem) [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
Notes  Distribution: Southern ocean to ice-edge in the south [details]

Habitat: oceanic [details]

Holotype: None; name based on animals seen at sea. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, latitude 49 degrees South, between Cape Horn and Australia. [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 36)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 36)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - www.wetenschatten.be
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:54:40

Lagenorhynchus cruciger
Lagenorhynchus cruciger
added on 2009-02-14 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:54:48

Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger). Copyrighted by A. R. Martin.
Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger). Copyrighted by A. R. Martin.
added on 2009-04-28 - author: Tony Martin ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 22:32:12

Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger). Copyrighted by A. R. Martin
Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger). Copyrighted by A. R. Martin
added on 2009-04-28 - author: Tony Martin ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 22:32:47
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Lagenorhynchus cruciger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383563 on 2010-02-09
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