Species Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804)

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CAVS: 1630

Species Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804)

Southern Right Whale Dolphin

Delphinus peronii Lacépède, B.G.É. 1804. Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, G.L.L. de Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Nouv. édn. Paris : C.S. Sonnini xxxiii 329 pp. [316].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP (a skull in MNHP may be the holotype), S of TAS [about 44°S 141°E].
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
Delphinus leucoramphus Lacépède, B.G.É. 1804. Histoire naturelle des cétacées. In Buffon, G.L.L. de Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière. Nouv. édn. Paris : C.S. Sonnini xxxiii 329 pp. [316 footnote] [nom. nud.; Péron's manuscript name for Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804, see Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 246: viii 1–259 [58]].
Type data:
Status unknown.
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
Delphinapterus peronii Lesson, R.P. 1826. Description des mammifères. Ch. 3. in Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. Zoologie Pt 1 in Duperrey, M.L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur la Corvette de sa Majesté la Coquille Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 & 1825. Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [179].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (a skull in MNHP may be the holotype), S of TAS [about 44°S 141°E].
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 [56] (see also for synonyms based on non-Australian material)

Generic Combinations

Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Vagrant; southern circumpolar.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)