Phocoena dioptrica Lahille 1912 (spectacled porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Alternative combinations: Australophocaena dioptrica, Phocaena dioptrica

Synonym: Phocaena stornii Marelli 1922

Belongs to Phocoena according to T. A. Jefferson 2021

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1985, Brownell 1975, Colpaert et al. 2015, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Hershkovitz 1966, Mead and Brownell 2005, Rice 1998 and Scheffer and Rice 1963

Sister taxa: Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena sinus, Phocoena spinipinnis

Type specimens:

  • Phocoena dioptrica: Its type locality is Rio de La Plata, which is in a Holocene fluvial horizon in Uruguay
  • Phocaena stornii:

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Uruguay (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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