Life Mammalia Cetacea Phocoenidae

• Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 Uruguay Argentina Falkland Is. South Georgia Is. Aucland Is.

  • Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912; Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., Buenos Aires, 23: 269; TL: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Punta Colares, near Quilmes

  • Australophocaena dioptrica;
• Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) N.Atlantic, N.Pacific Pyöriäinen Common Porpoise Harbour Porpoise

  • Delphinus phocoena Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (edn. 10) 1: 77; TL: Swedish Seas
  • P. p. vomerina (Gill, 1865)

    • Phocaena vomerina Gill, 1865; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 178; TL: Puget Sound, Washington
  • P. p. relicta Black Sea
• Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958 N.Gulf of California

  • Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958; J. Mammal. 39: 22; TL: Baja California Norte, Punta San Felipe
• Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 Temperate waters of S.America (Rio de Plata to Tierra del Fuego to Paita)

  • Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865: 228; TL: Argentina, Buenos Aires, mouth of the Rio de la Plata

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