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    known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. Commerson was born at Châtillon-les-Dombes in France...
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    Scomberoides commersonnianus (category Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède)
    the French naturalist Philibert Commerçon, this also being spelled as Commerson, (1727-1773), whose notes and illustration were used by Lacépède as the...
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    other members of the crew. Ahutoru courted Baret with insistence until Commerson led him to believe that she was married. On 15 April 1768, Boudeuse and...
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    individuals. The species Inia geoffrensis was described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1817. Originally, the Amazon river dolphin belonged to the superfamily...
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    European noble families, the most noticeable being those of the Dauphin de Viennois (later Dauphin of France) through which it passed to the Counts of Forez...
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    further north to calve, such as at Île Sainte-Marie, Antongil Bay, Fort Dauphin Toliara, Anakao, Andavadoaka, and Antsiranana Bay, at Madagascar's northern...
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    French naturalists and voyagers Philibert Commerson and Pierre Sonnerat visited the island from the Isle de France (now Mauritius). They collected and...
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    captivity are spotted dolphins, false killer whales and common dolphins, Commerson's dolphins, as well as rough-toothed dolphins, but all in much lower numbers...
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    Southern right whale dolphin (category Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède)
    delfin (delphin) liso austral (Spanish), minami semi-iruka (Japanese), dauphin de Peron (French), yuzhnyi kitovidnyi delfin (Russian), Südlicher Glattdelfin...
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