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Neophocaena asiaeorientalis

Description

Neophocaena asiaeorientalis (Pilleri and Gihr, 1972) —Narrow-ridged Finless Porpoise

Neomeris asiaeorientalis Pilleri and Gihr, 1972 p.126; Type locality- Yangtze River, China.

Delphinus melas Schlegel, 1841 p.32; Type locality- off coast of Japan.

Neomeris kurrachiensis Murray, 1884 p.351; Type locality- Kurrachee (Karachi), Pakistan.

Neophocaena phocaenoides: Kuroda, 1938 p.19; Kim et al., 2000 p.112; Kim, 2004 p.253.

Neomeris phocaenoides: Won, 1958 p.435; Won, 1967 p.86; Won, 1968 p.226.

Range: Narrow-ridged finless porpoises inhabit coastal waters between 5 and 15 km from the coast of the Korean Peninsula and nearby islands (Fig. 108). This species rarely occurs West of 124? 30ꞌ E (Choi et al. 2010). The peak observation period lasts from March to June in the waters of Korea. Although rarely observed, N. asiaeorientalis can inhabit freshwater streams such as the Amnok, Han and Nakdong rivers (Kim 2004).

Remarks: N. asiaeorientalis was formerly classified as a subspecies of N. phocaenoides but was elevated to the species level based on morphological and genetic differences (Wang et al. 2008). Korean populations belong to the Subspecies N. a. sunameri Pilleri and Gihr, 1975, the East Asian finless porpoise or sunameri.

Conservation status: CITES listed the species on Appendix I (under N. phocaenoides). The South Korean government designated N. asiaeorientalis a Protected Marine Species in 2016 due to a severe decline in recent years.

Notes

Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pilleri and Gihr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Phocoenidae
Genus
Neophocaena
Species
asiaeorientalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neophocaena asiaeorientalis (and, 1972) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018

References

  • Pilleri, G. & Gihr, M. (1972) Contribution to the knowledge of the cetaceans of Pakistan with particular reference to the genera Neomeris, Sousa, Delphinus and Tursiops and description of a new Chinese porpoise (Neomeris asiaeorientalis). Investigations on Cetacea, 4, 107 - 162.
  • Schlegel, H. (1841) Abhandlungen aus dem gebiete der zoologie und vergleichenden anotomie. A. Arnz and Company, Leiden, Amsterdam, 154 pp. [in German] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 16080
  • Murray, J. A. (1884) A contribution to the Knowledge of the Marine Fauna of Kurrachee. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 13, 348 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938409459252
  • Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
  • Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
  • Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
  • Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
  • Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
  • Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
  • Choi, S. G., Park, K. J., Kim, H. W., Lee, Y. R., Park, J. E., Moon, D. Y. & An, Y. R. (2010) Finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, distribution in the South Sea of Korea. Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 43, 665 - 669. [in Korean] https: // doi. org / 10.5657 / kfas. 2010.43.6.665
  • Wang, J. Y., Frasier, T. R., Yong, S. C. & White, B. N. (2008) Detecting recent speciation events: the case of the finless porpoise (Genus Neophocaena). Heredity, 101, 145 - 155. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / hdy. 2008.40