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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Phocoenidae
--> GENUS Phocoena
SPECIES Phocoena phocoena
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 77. | | Common Name: | Harbor Porpoise | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Oceano Europaeo, & Balthico." (= Baltic Sea, "Swedish Seas"). | | Distribution: | N Pacific and N Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters, isolated population in Black Sea; extends south to Senegal in the E Atlantic. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Gaskin et al. (1974, Mammalian Species, 42). Rice (1998:124) recognized P. p. phocoena (North Atlantic Harbor Porpoise), P. p. vomerina (Eastern North Pacific Harbor Porpoise) and an un-named subspecies in the western North Pacific, but did not recognize P. p. relicta (Black Sea Harbor Porpoise). |
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