Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) 
AphiaID: 254976

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Cephalorhynchus

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Cephalorhynchus Gray, 1846
Synonymised taxa		Cephalorhynchus commersoni Yanez, 1948 (synonym) Delphinus commersonii Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri Moreno, 1892 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus floweri Moreno, 1892 (synonym) Phocoena commersonii Lesson, 1827 (synonym)
Sources		original description: de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, Histoire naturelle, vol. 37:317. [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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English Commerson's dolphin  [details] English piebald dolphin  [details] French dauphin de Commerson  [details] French dauphin pie  [details] French jacobite  [details] Spanish tonina overa  [details] Spanish tunina overa  [details]
All child taxa [hide all]		Subspecies Cephalorhynchus commersonii commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) Subspecies Cephalorhynchus commersonii kerguelensis Robineau, Goodall, Pichler & Baker, 2007
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Falkland Islands [details] Kerguelen Islands [details] South America [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 37 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: mostly coastal [details] Holotype: None. Name based on animals seen and described by Commerson in a manuscript addressed to M. Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Chile [details]
Images		Cephalorhynchus commersonii added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:44:09 Cephalorhynchus commersonii added on 2012-01-31 - author: VLIZ collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-13 18:44:49
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254976
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
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804). 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=254976 on 2013-05-24