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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Phocoenidae
--> GENUS Neophocaena
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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