Cephalorhynchus commersonii - #4048
Commerson's Dolphin
Geographic Distribution
Argentina to Chile: Gulf of San Matias, Argentina, to the Chilean side of the Straits of Magellan; South Shetland, Falkland and Kerguelen Isls. See Brownell and Praderi (1985) for further discussion. Rice (1998:101) recognized that the Falkland and Kerguelen Island populations are disjunct and suggested that they differ in subspecies, the Falkland population being C. c. commersonii and the Kerguelen population being C. c. subsp.
Order/Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Cephalorhynchus
Specific Epithet
commersonii
Image Location
USA, CA, San Diego Co., Sea World
Image Date
22 August 2010
Photographer
DG Huckaby