Abstract

VARELA, Esperanza A. et al. Updated revision of the marine mammals collection housed at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Mastozool. neotrop. [online]. 2010, vol.17, n.1, pp.213-218. ISSN 0327-9383.

A thorough revision of the specimens housed at the Marine Mammals collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" indicated that 56.9% (n=378), of the total number of specimens catalogued, belongs to Cetacea and the remainder (43.1%) to Pinnipedia. Among Cetacea, Delphinidae is the best represented family, whereas Pontoporia (Pontoporidae) is the genus which comprises the major number of specimens. Furthermore, we report three type specimens which were not cited in a previous work. As regards to Pinnipedia, the best represented family corresponds to Otariidae, being Otaria the genus with the highest number of specimens.

Keywords : Argentina; Cetacea; Collection; Pinnipedia; Type specimens.

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