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Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Commerson's Dolphin; piebald dolphin)

Synonyms: Cephalorhynchus commersoni; Delphinus commersonii; Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri; Lagenorhynchus floweri; Phocoena commersonii

Wikipedia Abstract

Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii), also referred to by the common names skunk dolphin, piebald dolphin or panda dolphin, is a small oceanic dolphin of the genus Cephalorhynchus. Commerson's dolphin has two geographically-isolated but locally-common subspecies. The principal subspecies, C.c.commersonii, has sharply-delineated black-and-white patterning and is found around the tip of South America. The secondary subspecies, C.c.kerguelenensis, is larger than C.c.commersonii, has a less-sharply delineated dark and light grey patterning with a white ventral band, and is found around the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 7.19

Attributes

Gestation [2]  11 months 20 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  26 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5.904 feet (180 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  110.232 lbs (50.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  14.551 lbs (6.60 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  5 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  5 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tierra Del Fuego National Park II 172861 Argentina

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Braunina cordiformis[7]
Hysterothylacium rigidum[7]
Pholeter gastrophilus[7]
Strobilocephalus triangularis[7]
Synthesium delamurei[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
5CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
6Hector’s dolphin diet: The species, sizes and relative importance of prey eaten by Cephalorhynchus hectori, investigated using stomach content analysis, ELANOR MILLER, CHRIS LALAS, STEVE DAWSON, HILTRUN RATZ, ELISABETH SLOOTEN, Marine Mammal Science 2012
7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0