WoRMS name details
Phocaena posidonia Philippi, 1893
384075 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:384075)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Phocaena Lesson, 1827 accepted as Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1816
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Philippi, R. A. (1893). Los delfines de la Punta Austral de la América del Sur. Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile. Publicados por órden del Gobierno de Chile. Primera Seccion. Zoolojía [The dolphins of the Punta Austral of South America. Annals of the National Museum of Chile. Published by order of the Government of Chile. First Section. Zoology]. Santiago, Chile. [details]
Note Type locality is “48º100 latit. sur i 77º...
Type material Type locality is “48º100 latit. sur i 77º lonjit. oeste” (48º100 latitude south and 77º longitude west) in Chile. Measurements and external description are given. A female specimen was harpooned. Similarities with Delphinus Fitzroyi Waterhouse, 1838 are noted but a new name was given based on differences in head shape and coloration. According to Hershkovitz (1966), the holotype exists as a skin and skull of a female collected off the coast of Chile (48º100S and 77ºW) and stored in the “Santiago de Chile Museum.” Brownell and Cipriano (1999) concluded that P. posidonia is a junior synonym of Lagenorhynchus obscurus. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Phocaena posidonia Philippi, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384075 on 2024-04-19
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Philippi, R. A. (1893). Los delfines de la Punta Austral de la América del Sur. Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile. Publicados por órden del Gobierno de Chile. Primera Seccion. Zoolojía [The dolphins of the Punta Austral of South America. Annals of the National Museum of Chile. Published by order of the Government of Chile. First Section. Zoology]. Santiago, Chile. [details]
taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
[request]
taxonomy source Vollmer, N. L.; Ashe, E.; Brownell, R. L.; Cipriano, F.; Mead, J. G.; Reeves, R. R.; Soldevilla, M. S.; Williams, R. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus. <em>Marine Mammal Science.</em> 35(3): 957-1057., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12573 [details] Available for editors
[request] From editor or global species database
Type material Type locality is “48º100 latit. sur i 77º lonjit. oeste” (48º100 latitude south and 77º longitude west) in Chile. Measurements and external description are given. A female specimen was harpooned. Similarities with Delphinus Fitzroyi Waterhouse, 1838 are noted but a new name was given based on differences in head shape and coloration. According to Hershkovitz (1966), the holotype exists as a skin and skull of a female collected off the coast of Chile (48º100S and 77ºW) and stored in the “Santiago de Chile Museum.” Brownell and Cipriano (1999) concluded that P. posidonia is a junior synonym of Lagenorhynchus obscurus. [details]
