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Peale's dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis.jpg Conservation status
Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia Subclass: Eutheria Order: Cetacea Suborder:
Odontoceti Family: Delphinidae Genus: Lagenorhynchus Species: L.
australis Binomial name Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848)
Cetacea range map Black-chinned Dolphin.PNG Peale's dolphin
range  Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis) is a small
dolphin found in the waters around Tierra del Fuego at the foot
of South America. It is also commonly known as the black-chinned
dolphin or even Peale's black-chinned dolphin. However, since
Rice's work [2] Peale's dolphin has been adopted as the standard
common name.   Though it is traditionally placed in the genus
Lagenorhynchus, recent molecular analyses indicate Peale's
dolphin is actually more closely related to the dolphins of the
genus Cephalorhynchus. If tru