Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Full reference: K. S. Norris and W. N. McFarland. 1958. A new harbor porpoise of the genus Phocoena from the Gulf of California. Journal of Mammalogy 39(1):22-39
Belongs to Phocoena according to W. Colpaert et al. 2015
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Brownell 1983, Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006, Jefferson 2021, Mead and Brownell 2005, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Phocoena dioptrica, Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena spinipinnis
Type specimen: UC MVZ 120933, a skull. Its type locality is Punta San Felipe, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Mexico.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution: found only at Punta San Felipe
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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