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SPECIES Phocoena spinipinnis

Author:Burmeister, 1865.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 228, figs 1-5.
Common Name:Burmeister’s Porpoise
Type Locality:Argentina, Buenos Aires, "captured in the mouth of the River Plata".
Distribution:Southern hemisphere: coastal temperate waters of South America, from Rio Urucanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil to Tierra del Fuego to Paita, Peru.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:Reviewed by Brownell and Praderi (1984, Mammalian Species, 217). A recent specimen referred to this species from Heard Isl has been reidentified as Phocaena dioptrica (Brownell et al., 1989).
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    philippii Perez Canto in Philippi, 1896

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