Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 358

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7155017
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scientific name	Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceono Europaeo, & Balthico." (= Baltic Sea, "Swedish Seas") .

DISTRIBUTION: N Pacific and N Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters, isolated population in Black Sea; extends south to Senegal in the E Atlantic.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: americana , communis , lineata , relieta, vomerina .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Gaskin et al. (1974, Mammalian Species, 42).