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original description]. — Cabrera, 1961, Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. 

 Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," 4: 615 [in synonymy of Cephalorhynchus 

 eutropia Gray]. 

 [Lissodelphis] chiloensis, Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., p. 766 



[classification]. 

 Type: Name based primarily, if not solely, on Peron's manuscript 

 account submitted to Lacepede. The type was observed Jan. 11, 1802, 

 south of Tasmania. According to Gray (1846, Zoology of the voyage of 

 H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 36), the skull is in the 

 Paris museum. This skull may or may not be the type. 



Type locality: South of Van Diemen's Land [=Tasmania] about 

 latitude 44° S., 141° E. 



Distribution: In South American waters from southern Brazil and the 

 Patagonian coast on the Atlantic to Conception, Chile (37° S.), on the 

 Pacific; also recorded from New Zealand and Tasmania to New Guinea 

 in the western Pacific and off South Africa in the Atlantic. Nishiwaki 

 (1957, Coll. Rep. Fish. Sci. Univ. Tokyo) records both Lissodelphis peronii 

 and L. p. borealis Peale as occurring in Japanese waters. 



Lissodelphis [peroni] borealis Peale 



Delphinapterus borealis Peale, 1848, in U.S. Exploring Expeditions, 8 

 (Mammalogy and Ornithology): 35, pi. 8, fig. 2 (animal). — Cassin, 

 1858, ibid., ed. 2, p. 30. 

 Tursio borealis, True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 80, 168, pi. 22, 



fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) [characters], 

 [Lissodelphis] borealis, Elliot, 1901, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., 



2: 30, pi. 10, fig. 2 (skull) [characters; distribution]. 

 Lissodelphis borealis, Norris and Prescott, 1961, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., 63: 323 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Santa Barbara Island, California; 

 Amacapa Island, California; Long Point, Los Angeles Co., California; 

 Santa Catalina Island, California); behavior; morphology]. 

 Type: None preserved, name and description based on animal taken 

 at sea. 



Type locality: North Pacific, 46°6'50" N., 134°5' W. (10° west of 

 Astoria, Oregon). 



Distribution: North Pacific from Bering Sea to San Diego, California, 

 on the east, Japan on the west. 



Genus LAGENODELPHIS Fraser 



Lagenodelphis Fraser, 1956, Sarawak Mus. Journ., 7(8, n.s.): 478-503 



(name, p. 496). 

 Type species: Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser, by original designation. 

 Distribution : Mouth of Lutong River, Baram, Sarawak, South China 

 Sea. 



