Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 
AphiaID: 254971

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Phocoenidae > Phocoena

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1816
Synonymised taxa		Australophocaena dioptrica Barnes, 1985 (synonym) Australophocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912) (synonym) Phocaena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 (basionym) Phocaena stornii Marelli, 1922 (synonym) Phocoena obtusata Phillipi, 1893 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Lahille, F. (1912). Nota preliminar sobre una nueva expecie de marsopa del Río de la Plata Phocoena diotrica. Annales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 23:271--278, pl. 6--9. [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: Brownell, R. L., Jr. (1975). Phocoena dioptrica. Mammalian Species 66:1--3. [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English spectacled dolphin (from synonym)  [details] English spectacled porpoise  [details] French marsouin de Lahille  [details] Norwegian brillenise  [details] Portuguese golfinho de oculos  [details] Portuguese marsopa  [details] Portuguese marsopa de oculos  [details] Spanish marsopa  [details] Spanish marsopa anteojillo  [details] Spanish marsopa de anteojos  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		South West Atlantic [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details]
Links		MarineBio.org To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: offshore and estuarine [details] Holotype: Entire female preserved in alcohol, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Punta Colares, near Quilmes, Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [details]
Images		Phocoena dioptrica added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-20 00:03:06 Phocoena dioptrica added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-20 00:03:14
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254971
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-22 19:25:59Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William 2011-04-26 15:35:34Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254971 on 2013-05-22