Cetacea name details
Phocaena australis Peale, 1849
384061 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:384061)
unaccepted > junior objective synonym (basionym)
Species
Phocaena Lesson, 1827 accepted as Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1816
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Peale, T. R. (1849). United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Volume VIII. Mammalia and ornithology. C. Sherman, Philadelphia, PA. [details]
Note Type locality is “the South Atlantic Ocean,...
Type material Type locality is “the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Patagonia.” Short description and external measurements are given. The specimen was “Harpooned…on the 12th of February.” The specimen was to be printed on Plate 6 Figure 2 but the plates were not published in Peale’s volume (see Kellogg 1941). It is possible the skull and jaws used by Cope (1866) to describe Sagmatias amblodon were originally part of Peale’s harpooned specimen; however, with the loss of some of Peale’s original notes and the lack/loss of associated collection history of Cope’s skull, whether these are two separate specimens or a single specimen will likely never be known (Kellogg 1941, Goodall et al. 1997c, Brownell et al. 1999a). Hershkovitz (1966) states that the type locality of P. australis is “…one day’s sail north of the Straits of Le Maire between Staten Island and Cape San Diego, Tierra del Fuego” (Argentina), however, this detail does not appear in either Peale (1849) or Cassin (1858; a republication of Peale 1849) but was included in Kellogg’s (1941:296) type description. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Phocaena australis Peale, 1849. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384061 on 2024-04-24
original description
Peale, T. R. (1849). United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Volume VIII. Mammalia and ornithology. C. Sherman, Philadelphia, PA. [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
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
From editor or global species database
Type material Type locality is “the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Patagonia.” Short description and external measurements are given. The specimen was “Harpooned…on the 12th of February.” The specimen was to be printed on Plate 6 Figure 2 but the plates were not published in Peale’s volume (see Kellogg 1941). It is possible the skull and jaws used by Cope (1866) to describe Sagmatias amblodon were originally part of Peale’s harpooned specimen; however, with the loss of some of Peale’s original notes and the lack/loss of associated collection history of Cope’s skull, whether these are two separate specimens or a single specimen will likely never be known (Kellogg 1941, Goodall et al. 1997c, Brownell et al. 1999a). Hershkovitz (1966) states that the type locality of P. australis is “…one day’s sail north of the Straits of Le Maire between Staten Island and Cape San Diego, Tierra del Fuego” (Argentina), however, this detail does not appear in either Peale (1849) or Cassin (1858; a republication of Peale 1849) but was included in Kellogg’s (1941:296) type description. [details]