WoRMS taxon details
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828)
AphiaID: 231434
AphiaID: 231434
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Lagenorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lagenorhynchus Gray, 1846 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Clymenia obscura Gray, 1868 (synonym) Delphinus (Tursio) obscurus Burmeister, 1867 (synonym) Delphinus breviceps Wagner, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus fitzroyi Waterhouse, 1838 (synonym) Delphinus obscurus Gray, 1828 (basionym) Delphinus superciliosus Lesson & Garnot, 1826 (synonym) Electra breviceps Gray, 1868 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus breviceps Gray, 1866 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus clanculus Gray, 1846 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus fitzroy Bini, 1951 (synonym) Lagenorhynchus fitzroyi Flower, 1885 (synonym) Lissodelphis panope Trouessart, 1904 (synonym) Phocaena fitzroyi Philippi, 1893 (synonym) Prodelphinus obscurus Flower, 1885 (synonym) Prodelphinus petersii Lutken, 1889 (synonym) Tursio obscurus Gray, 1866 (synonym for part of Lagenorhynchus obscurus) Tursio panope Perez Canto, 1896 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1. page(s): 2, pl.2, fig.2 [details] basis of record: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Lagenorhynchus obscurus fitzroyi (Waterhouse, 1838) Subspecies Lagenorhynchus obscurus obscurus (Gray, 1828) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (261 nucleotides; 156 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: coastal and over continental shelf and slope. [details] Holotype: Stuffed skin and skull in British Museum (Natural History), London, no. 41.1733 [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: "Southern Ocean" [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231434 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lagenorhynchus obscurus. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231434 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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