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Phocoena sinus (Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Taxonomy
Phocoena sinus was named by Norris and McFarland (1958). It is extant. Its type specimen is UC MVZ 120933, a skull. Its type locality is Punta San Felipe, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland
1963Phocoena sinus Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1977Phocoena sinus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1983Phocoena sinus Brownell
1991Phocoena sinus Vidal p. 5
1998Phocoena sinus Rice p. 124
2005Phocoena sinus Mead and Brownell p. 736
2006Phocoena sinus Fajardo-Mellor et al. p. 911
2008Phocoena sinus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2015Phocoena sinus Colpaert et al. p. 9 figs. Figure 8
2021Phocoena sinus Jefferson p. 57

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyPhocoenidae()
genusPhocoena(Cuvier 1816)
speciessinus

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 sinus Norris and McFarland 1958 [Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available