RAMS taxon details

Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804)

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 38)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 38)

231414  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231414)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Tetrapoda (Megaclass)
  7. Mammalia (Class)
  8. Theria (Subclass)
  9. Cetartiodactyla (Order)
  10. Cetancodonta (Suborder)
  11. Cetacea (Infraorder)
  12. Odontoceti (Superfamily)
  13. Delphinidae (Family)
  14. Lissodelphis (Genus)
  15. Lissodelphis peronii (Species)
accepted
Species
Delphinapterus peronii Lesson, 1826 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, terrestrial
(of Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804) de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. <em>In Buffon, Histoire naturelle.</em> vol. 37:317., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7339#/summary
page(s): 316 [details] 
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804). Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231414 on 2026-05-20
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231414 on 2026-05-20
Date
action
by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z
created
Charbonneau, Danny
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z
changed
Perrin, William

original description (of Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804) de Lacépède, B. G. E. (1804). Histoire naturelle des cétacées. <em>In Buffon, Histoire naturelle.</em> vol. 37:317., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7339#/summary
page(s): 316 [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Reyes, J. (2009). Ballenas, delfines y otros cetáceos del Perú. Una fuente de información. <em>Lima- Perú. Squema-Ediciones.</em> 160 pp. [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.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] 

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details] 

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Newcomer, M. W., T. A. Jefferson and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (1996). Lissodelphis peronii. Mammalian Species 531:1--5., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3504326 [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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English southern right whale dolphin  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Delphinapterus peronii Lesson, 1826)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Delphinus leucoramphus Lacépède, 1804)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lissodelphis peronii) 
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Delphinus peronii Lacépède, 1804)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 5 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 2186 Lissodelphis peronii skull) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed