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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> FAMILY Phocoenidae
--> GENUS Phocoena
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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
philippii Perez Canto in Philippi, 1896
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