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Delphinus {Tursio) obscurus, Burmeister, 1867, Anal. Mus. Publ. Buenos 

 Aires, 1: 306 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (coast of Patagonia)]. 



Tursio obscurus, Gray, 1866, Gat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 264 

 [characters; synonymy includes Phoccena australis Peale]. — Philippi, 

 1896, Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, Zool., Entr., 12a: 7 [discussion]. 



Clymenia obscura, Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins Brit. Mus., 

 p. 6, pi. 16 (skull) [characters]. 



C[lymenia\ obscura, Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 393 [classi- 

 fication].— Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 495, 512 

 [classification; breviceps Gervais (1880, Osteographie, pi. 36, fig. 2) a 

 synonym]. 



Prodelphinus obscurus, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 28 [S. 

 Pacific : Chile (Coquimbo) ; type : stuffed skin with skull, now in 

 British Museum; synonyms: similis Gray, thicolea Gray]. 



Lagenorhynchus obscurus, True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 62, 100, 

 104, 174, pi. 29, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) [characters; possible 

 synonyms: breviceps Gervais, australis Peale, obliquidens Gill]. — Lahille, 



1899, Primera reunion del Congreso Latinoamericano, 3 : 36 [S.Atlantic: 

 Argentina (Bahia San Sebastian, Tierra del Fuego)]. — Beddard, 



1900, Book of whales, p. 263, pi. 15 (animal).— Dabbene, 1902, Anal. 

 Mus. Buenos Aires, (3), 1: 350 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Tierra del 

 Fuego)].— Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool., 1905: 62 [S. Atlantic: 

 Argentina (Buenos Aires); S. Pacific: Chile; characters]. — Wilson, 

 1907, National Antarctic Expedition, Brit. Mus., 2: 8 [Antarctic seas] . — ■ 

 Lillie, 1915, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910, Zo- 

 ology, 1(3): 122, pi. 8, figs. 2-4 (variation in color pattern) [S. 

 Atlantic: 35°57' S., 18°49' E.; S. Pacific: southern Australia and New 

 Zealand waters]. — Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 

 581 [Cape seas and southern seas to 58° S.]. — Iredale and Troughton, 

 1934, Mem. Australian Mus., 6: 67 [Indian: Tasmania; synonyms: 



fitzroyi Waterhouse, cruciger d'Orbigny and Gervais, clanculus Gray, 

 latifrons True]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, 

 whales and dolphins, p. 324, fig. 89 (animal) [characters]. — Kellogg, 

 1941, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 27: 298, fig. 2 (animal) 

 [characters; synonyms: fitzroyi, breviceps, posidonia]. — Sapin-Jaloustre, 

 1953, Mammalia, 17: 255 [sighting characters]. — Mann, 1957, 

 Invest. Zool. Chilenas, 4: 104 [S. Pacific: Chile; key characters]. 



L[agenorhynchus] obscurus, Schneider, 1946, Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepcion 

 (Chile), 21: 80 [S. Pacific: Chile (Conception)].— Yafiez, 1948, 

 Rev. Biol. Marina, Valparaiso, 1: 114 [S. Pacific: Chile (Tierra del 

 Fuego to Coquimbo) ; fitzroyi a synonym]. 



Delphinus obscurus (variete), Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, Voyage de de- 

 couverte de 1' Astrolabe, Zoologie, 1: 151, pi. 28, fig. 3 (animal) 

 [specimen examined and figured in the Natural History Museum 



