Order Cetacea
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
723
743
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Cephalorhynchus commersonii
(Lacépède 1804)
[Delphinus] commersonii
Lacépède 1804
,
Hist. Nat. Cetacees: 317
.
Type Locality:
Chile
, "de la terre de Feu et dans le détroit de Magellan" (= Tierra del Fuego, Straits of Magellan).
Vernacular Names:
Commerson's Dolphin
.
Synonyms:
Cephalorhynchus floweri
(Moreno 1892)
.
Distribution:
Argentina
to
Chile
: Gulf of San Matias,
Argentina
, to the Chilean side of the Straits of Magellan; South
Shetland
, Falkland and Kerguelen Isls. See
Brownell and Praderi (1985)
for further discussion.
Rice (1998:101)
recognized that the Falkland and Kerguelen Island populations are disjunct and suggested that they differ in subspecies, the Falkland population being
C. c.
commersonii
and the Kerguelen population being
C. c
. subsp.
Conservation:
CITES
– Appendix II;
IUCN
– Data Deficient.
Discussion:
Reviewed by
Goodall et al. (1988)
.