Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 191

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930953

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE49-FFDF-9F4B-FB39FA800340

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829)
status

 

359. Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829) View in CoL

Common name: Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Indo-Pacific: warm-temperate to tropical waters; Persian Gulf to Malaysia, North coast of Java, China and Japan: coastal waters and some rivers. In Myanmar, recorded in the nearshore waters of the Myeik Archipelago ( Smith and Tun 2008).

Remarks: This species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN and a completely protected species of Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Phocoenidae

Genus

Neophocaena

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