Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1

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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Biodiversity

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