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Cephalorhynchus
Sign in to saveCephalorhynchus is a genus in the dolphin family Delphinidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyDelphinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 23
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Collections
- USNM, CLO, NHMUK, BPBM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- United States, Chile, South Africa, Nouvelle-ZéLande, Afrique Du Sud
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Extant species
- References
Cephalorhynchus is a genus in the dolphin family Delphinidae.
==Extant species== It consists of six species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px||Peale's dolphin|| C. australis||Southern South America |- |120px||Commerson's dolphin|| C. commersonii||Argentina including Puerto Deseado, in the Strait of Magellan and around Tierra del Fuego, and near the Falkland Islands, near the Kerguelen Islands in the southern part of the Indian Ocean |- |120px||Hourglass dolphin|| C. cruciger||Argentina, Chile, New Zealand |- |120px ||Chilean dolphin|| C. eutropia||coast of Chile |- |120px ||Heaviside's dolphin|| C. heavisidii||coast of northern Namibia at 17°S and as far south as the southern tip of South Africa |- |120px ||Hector's dolphin|| C. hectori||coastal regions of New Zealand |- |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cephalorhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.