Editing Commerson's dolphin (section)

{{Short description|Species of mammal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2014}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Commerson's dolphin<ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3 Cetacea|id=14300037}}</ref>
| image = Tonina1 (2731842634).jpg
| image_caption = A Commerson's dolphin in [[Chubut Province]].
| image2 = Commerson's dolphin size.svg
| image2_caption = Size compared to an average human
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref =<ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Crespo, E. |author2=Olavarria, C. |author3=Dellabianca, N. |author4=Iñíguez, M. |author5=Ridoux, V. |author6=Reeves, R. |year=2017 |errata=2018 |title=''Cephalorhynchus commersonii'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T4159A128963283 |doi= |access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref>
| status2 = CITES_A2 
| status2_system = CITES 
| status2_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}</ref>
| genus = Cephalorhynchus
| species = commersonii
| authority = [[Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1804
| range_map = Commerson's dolphin South America distribution.png
| range_map_caption = ''C. c. commersonii'' distribution near South America
| range_map2 = Commerson's dolphin Kerguelen Island distribution.png
| range_map2_caption = ''C. c. kerguelensis'' distribution near the Kerguelen Islands
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision =
*''C. c .commersonii''
*''C. c .kerguelensis''
}}

'''Commerson's dolphin''' ('''''Cephalorhynchus commersonii'''''), also referred to by the common names '''jacobita''', '''skunk dolphin''', '''piebald dolphin''', '''panda dolphin''', or '''tonina overa''' (in South America), 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.

The dolphin is named after French naturalist Dr [[Philibert Commerson]], who first described them in 1767 after sighting them in the [[Strait of Magellan]].<ref>''Sharks and Whales'' (Carwardine et al. 2002), p. 370.</ref>