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Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1

Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Read, AJ; Keener, W; Webber, MA; Siebert, U
January 1, 2024

The harbor porpoise was described as Delphinus phocoena by Linnaeus in 1758 from “Oceano, Europaeo & Balthico” and assigned to the genus Phocoena by Cuvier in 1816. Hershkovitz (1966) provides numerous synonyms, and as noted by Schevill et al. (1969), both the genus and species names have been misspelled occasionally as “Phocaena phocaena” from the Latin spelling of porpoise, “phocaena.” There are nine junior synonyms: P. ventricosus, communis, tuberculifera, vomerina, brachycium, americana, rondeletti, lineata, and relicta (Jefferson, 2021).

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Read, A. J., Keener, W., Webber, M. A., & Siebert, U. (2024). Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). In Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1 (Vol. 1, pp. 421–486). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13746-4.00001-9
Read, A. J., W. Keener, M. A. Webber, and U. Siebert. “Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758).” In Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1, 1:421–86, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13746-4.00001-9.
Read AJ, Keener W, Webber MA, Siebert U. Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1. 2024. p. 421–86.
Read, A. J., et al. “Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758).” Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1, vol. 1, 2024, pp. 421–86. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-13746-4.00001-9.
Read AJ, Keener W, Webber MA, Siebert U. Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1. 2024. p. 421–486.

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January 1, 2024

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421 / 486