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SPECIES Neophocaena phocaenoides

Author:G. Cuvier, 1829.
Citation:Règne Anim., Nouv. ed., 1: 291.
Common Name:Finless Porpoise
Type Locality:South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope ("à découvert au Cap,"). Almost certainly erroneous; unknown today from coast of Africa.
Distribution:Indo-Pacific: warm-temperate to tropical waters; Persian Gulf to Malaysia, north coast of Java (Tasàn and Leatherwood, 1984), China, and Japan: coastal waters and some rivers.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Endangered as N. p. asiaeorientalis, otherwise Data Deficient.
Comments:Reviewed by Pilleri and Gihr (1972; 1975:657, 673; 1980b). Van Bree (1973) considered asiaeorientalis to be of subspecific rank and sunameri to be synonymous with phocaenoides. Rice (1998:123) recognized N. p. phocaenoides, N. p. sunameri (Sunameri) and N. p. asiaeorientalis (Yangtse River Porpoise).
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SUBSPECIES phocaenoides

SUBSPECIES asiaeorientalis

SUBSPECIES sunameri

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