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Phocoena phocoena (harbor porpoise)
Taxonomy
Delphinus phocoena was named by Linnaeus (1758) [No type specimen designated (Hershkovitz, 1966).]. It is extant. It is the type species of Delphinus.
It was corrected as Delphinus phocaena by Fischer (1829), Gervais (1852); it was synonymized subjectively with Phocaena communis by Gray (1846); it was recombined as Phocaena phocaena by Trouessart (1904), Thomas (1911), Hay (1930); it was misspelled as Delphinus phocaena by Nilsson (1847); it was recombined as Phocoena phocoena by Cuvier (1817), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Gaskin et al. (1974), Barnes (1977), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Colpaert et al. (2015), Jefferson (2021).
It was corrected as Delphinus phocaena by Fischer (1829), Gervais (1852); it was synonymized subjectively with Phocaena communis by Gray (1846); it was recombined as Phocaena phocaena by Trouessart (1904), Thomas (1911), Hay (1930); it was misspelled as Delphinus phocaena by Nilsson (1847); it was recombined as Phocoena phocoena by Cuvier (1817), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Gaskin et al. (1974), Barnes (1977), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Colpaert et al. (2015), Jefferson (2021).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Delphinus phocoena Linnaeus p. 77 |
| 1792 | Phocaena fuscus Kerr p. 363 |
| 1804 | Delphinus phocaena Lacépède p. 287 |
| 1804 | Delphinus ventricosus Lacépède p. 311 |
| 1817 | Phocaena communis Cuvier p. 279 |
| 1817 | Phocoena phocoena Cuvier p. 279 |
| 1829 | Delphinus phocaena Fischer p. 509 |
| 1842 | Phocaena communis De Kay p. 133 |
| 1846 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 30 |
| 1847 | Delphinus phocaena Nilsson p. 616 |
| 1850 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 81 |
| 1852 | Delphinus phocaena Gervais p. 147 |
| 1864 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 245 |
| 1865 | Phocaena brachycium Cope p. 279 |
| 1865 | Phocaena vomerina Gill p. 178 |
| 1865 | Phocaena tuberculifera Gray |
| 1866 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 302 |
| 1866 | Phocaena tuberculifera Gray p. 304 |
| 1868 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 8 |
| 1869 | Phocaena americana Allen p. 206 |
| 1869 | Phocaena vomerina Scammon and Cope p. 23 |
| 1871 | Phocaena communis Gray p. 81 |
| 1873 | Phocaena communis Scott p. 94 |
| 1876 | Phocaena lineata Cope p. 134 |
| 1879 | Phocoena rondeletii Giglioli p. 78 |
| 1891 | Phocaena communis Newton p. 80 |
| 1898 | Phocaena communis Trouessart p. 1042 |
| 1904 | Phocaena phocaena Trouessart p. 769 |
| 1905 | Phocaena relicta Abel p. 387 |
| 1911 | Phocaena phocaena Thomas p. 158 |
| 1912 | Phocaena communis Turner p. 104 |
| 1930 | Phocaena phocaena Hay p. 588 |
| 1963 | Phocoena phocoena Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1966 | Phocoena phocoena Hershkovitz p. 100 |
| 1966 | Phocaena relicta Kudrin and Tatarinov p. 976 |
| 1974 | Phocoena phocoena Gaskin et al. p. 1 |
| 1977 | Phocoena phocoena Barnes |
| 1998 | Phocoena phocoena Rice p. 123 |
| 2005 | Phocoena phocoena Mead and Brownell p. 736 |
| 2006 | Phocoena phocoena Fajardo-Mellor et al. p. 911 |
| 2008 | Phocoena phocoena Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2011 | Phocoena phocoena Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Phocoena phocoena Colpaert et al. p. 9 figs. Figure 8 |
| 2021 | Phocoena phocoena Jefferson p. 55 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Phocoena phocoena Linnaeus 1758 [harbor porpoise]
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Invalid names: Delphinus ventricosus Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Phocaena americana Allen 1869 [synonym], Phocaena brachycium Cope 1865 [synonym], Phocaena communis Cuvier 1817 [synonym], Phocaena fuscus Kerr 1792 [synonym], Phocaena lineata Cope 1876 [synonym], Phocaena relicta Abel 1905 [synonym], Phocaena tuberculifera Gray 1865 [synonym], Phocaena vomerina Gill 1865 [synonym], Phocoena rondeletii Giglioli 1879 [synonym]
Delphinus phocaena albus Kerr 1792
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) | Phocaena phocaena (89447) | |
| Pliocene | Azerbaijan | Phocaena phocaena (108338) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Quebec) | Phocoena phocoena (51018) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Phocoena phocoena (238438) | |
| Holocene | Ukraine (Crimea) | Phocoena phocoena (235084) | |
| Holocene | Morocco | Phocoena phocoena (168241) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom (England) | Phocoena phocoena (238915 238918 238948) | |
| Holocene | Greenland (Qeqertasussuk) | Phocoena phocoena (187755) | |
| Holocene | Japan | Phocoena phocoena (82088 168244) | |
| Holocene | Japan (Hokkaido) | Phocoena phocoena (239737 239739) | |
| Holocene | Ukraine | Phocoena phocoena (235085) | |
| Holocene | USA (South Carolina) | Phocoena phocoena (168242) | |
| Holocene | USA (Alaska) | Phocoena phocoena (161613 175943) | |
| Holocene | Türkiye | Phocoena phocoena (235083) | |
| Holocene | USA (California) | Phocoena phocoena (168243) | |
| Holocene | Netherlands | Phocoena phocoena (55533) |