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Phocoena phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus 1758

Description

Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) —Harbor Porpoise, common porpoise

Delphinus phocoena Linnaeus, 1758 p.77; Type locality- Baltic Sea.

Phocoena vomerina Gill, 1865 p.178; Type locality- North Pacific.

P. phocoena: Kuroda, 1938 p.19 Kim et al., 2000 p.110; Kim, 2004 p.252.

Range: In Korea, P. phocoena occurs in the cold waters of the East Sea (Kim 2004; Fig. 109).

Remarks: A western Pacific stock has been identified as distinct from the eastern Pacific stock based on differences in the skull / jaw morphology and mtDNA (Shirihai & Jarrett 2006). Following these authors, the subspecies in the waters of Korea is the Eastern Pacific harbor porpoise, P. p. vomerina (Gill, 1865).

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 pages 159-160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phocoenidae
Genus
Phocoena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
phocoena (Linnaeus
Species
phocoena
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Fol. 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp. [in Latin]
  • Gill, T. (1865) On two species of Delphinae, from California, in the Smithsonian Instition. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phiadelphia, 17, 177 - 178.
  • 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]
  • Shirihai, H. & Jarrett, B. (2006) Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals of the world. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 384 pp.