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Phocoena dioptrica Lahille 



[?] Phocaena obtusata Philippi, 1893, Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, (1), Zool., 

 6: 12, pi. 3, fig. 1 (animal) [S. Pacific: Chile (type locality: Bahia de 

 Talcahuano, Concepcion); type in Museo Nacional de Santiago, re- 

 ceived 1888 from Sr. Federico Godoy]. 



[?] Cephalorhynchus? obtusata, True, 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 16: 139, 143 [classification; type probably immature]. 



Phocaena dioptrica Lahille, 1912, Anal. Mus. Nac. Hist. Buenos Aires, 

 23: 269, pis. 6-7 (animal), pi. 8 (fetus of type), pi. 9, fig. 5 (animal). — 

 Bruch, 1916, Physis, 11: 461, figs, (male and female) [S. Atlantic: 

 Argentina (Rio Santiago, Buenos Aires); measurements]. — Fraser, in 

 Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 312, 

 fig. 80 (animal) [S. Atlantic: "River Plate to South Georgia"; charac- 

 ters; "may be same as P. obtusata"]. — Cabrera and Yepes, 1940, 

 Mamiferos sudamericanos, p. 300 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Rio de La 

 Plata, Buenos Aires); local name: "marsopa de anteojos"]. — Hamil- 

 ton, 1941, Discovery Rep., no. 21 [S. Atlantic: South Georgia; Falk- 

 lands ; Argentina (Rio Santiago) ; external and osteological charac- 

 ters]. — Hamilton, 1952, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 

 4(66): 4 [S. Atlantic: Falklands]. — Norris and McFarland, 1961, 

 Journ. Mammal., 39: 32, 34, pis. 1-3D (skull) [distribution; charac- 

 ters; comparisons; stornii Marelli a synonym]. 



Phocaena Stornii Marelli, 1922, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argentina, Buenos Aires, 

 94: 229, figs. 1-3, 5 (skull), fig. 4 (teeth) [S. Atlantic: Argentina (type 

 locality: Tierra del Fuego); type [a skull only in the Buenos Aires 

 Museum] . 



Type : Female, entire specimen preserved in spirits, Museo Argentino de 

 Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires. 



Type locality: Punta Colares, near Quilmes, Rio de La Plata, Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina. 



Distribution: South Atlantic from the Rio de La Plata (34°40' S.), 

 Argentina, to Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, and South Georgia. Should 

 obtusata Philippi prove to be the same, the range would include the coast of 

 Chile from 36° southward. 



Phocoena phocoena Linnaeus 



[Delphinus] phocoena Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1:77. 



D[elphinus] phocaena [sic] Miiller, 1776, Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, 

 p. 7 [N. Atlantic: Norway; Greenland]. 



Delphinus phocaena [sic], Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, p. 287, pi. 

 13, fig. 2 (animal), pi. 14, fig. 2 (skull), pi. 15, fig. 3 (animal) [charac- 

 ters] . 



D[elphinus] {Phocaena [sic]) phocaena [sic], Gray, 1828, Spicilegia zoologica, 

 1 : 2 [classification]. 



