Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus 1758) phocoena (Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Phocoenidae
- genus
- Phocoena
- species
- Phocoena phocoena
discussion
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).
distribution
Range: In Korea, P. phocoena occurs in the cold waters of the East Sea (Kim 2004; Fig. 109).