Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Phocoena phocoena

Description

Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceono 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 - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: americana, communis, lineata, relieta, vomerina.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Gaskin et al. (1974, Mammalian Species, 42).

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phocoenidae
Genus
Phocoena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
phocoena
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993