Species Phocaena dioptrica Lahille, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phocaena dioptrica Lahille, F. 1912. Nota preliminar sobre una nueva especie de Marsopa del rio dela Plata. (Phocaena dioptrica). Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 23: 269-278 [269].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCNBA whole animal in spirit, Punta Colares, near Quilmes, Rio de la Plata, Argentina.

  Secondary source:

   Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [102]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Strandings from South Australia and Tasmania; recently identified from Macquarie Is. (specimen at NMV), western South Atlantic, probably circumpolar in Subantarctic latitudes, especially near islands and along continental coasts.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, continental shelf, oceanic, pelagic.

 

General References

Bannister, J.L., Kemper, C.M. & Warneke, R.M. 1996. The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 242 pp.

Brownell, R.L. 1975. Phocoena dioptrica. Mammalian Species 66: 1-3

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [116] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Australophocoena (sic) dioptrica)

Goodall, R.N.P. 2002. Spectacled porpoise. pp. 1158-1161 in Perrin, W.F., Wursig, B. & Thewissen, J.G.M. (eds). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. San Diego : Academic Press.

Goodall, R.N.P. & Schiavini, A.C.M. 1995. On the biology of the spectacled porpoise, Australophocoena dioptrica. Reports of the International Whaling Commission Special Issue 16: 411-543

Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.

Mead, J.G. & Brownell, R.L. 1993. Order Cetacea. pp. 349-364 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp. [358] (for extralimital synonymy)

Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Spectacled Porpoise)

 

History of changes

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