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).