Phocoena phocoena Linnaeus 1758 (harbor porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Alternative combinations: Delphinus phocaena, Delphinus phocoena, Phocaena phocaena

Synonyms: Delphinus ventricosus Lacépède 1804, Phocaena americana Allen 1869, Phocaena brachycium Cope 1865, Phocaena communis Cuvier 1817, Phocaena fuscus Kerr 1792, Phocaena lineata Cope 1876, Phocaena relicta Abel 1905, Phocaena tuberculifera Gray 1865, Phocaena vomerina Gill 1865, Phocoena rondeletii Giglioli 1879

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Phocoena according to W. Colpaert et al. 2015

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Cope 1865, De Kay 1842, de Muizon 1988, Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006, Fischer 1829, Gaskin et al. 1974, Geisler et al. 2011, Gervais 1852, Gray 1846, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Hay 1930, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson 2021, Kudrin and Tatarinov 1966, Lacépède 1804, Linnaeus 1758, Mead and Brownell 2005, Newton 1891, Nilsson 1847, Rice 1998, Scammon and Cope 1869, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Thomas 1911, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Turner 1912

Sister taxa: Phocoena dioptrica, Phocoena sinus, Phocoena spinipinnis

Subtaxa: Delphinus phocaena albus

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Quebec collection), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (4: Alaska, California, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), the Netherlands (1)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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