Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Phocoenidae
- genus
- Phocoena
- species
- Phocoena phocoena
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.
discussion
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Gaskin et al. (1974, Mammalian Species, 42).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: N Pacific and N Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters, isolated population in Black Sea; extends south to Senegal in the E Atlantic.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: " Habitat in Oceono Europaeo, & Balthico. " (= Baltic Sea, " Swedish Seas ").
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: americana, communis, lineata, relieta, vomerina.
Name
- Homonyms
- Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus 1758)