Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Phocoenidae > Genus Phocoena

Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phocoena*	G. Cuvier, 1816	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aleutian: aladak; alagikkh

Bokmål (Norwegian): nise sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Bulgarian: mutkur; Муткур sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: marsopa comuna

Czech: svinucha pobrezní

Danish: marsvin; tumler

Dutch: bruinvis; bruinvisch; tonyn; zee-vark sources: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

English: bay porpoise; bucker; common porpoise; harbor porpoise; harbour porpoise; herring hog; hogfish; neesock; nisack (Shetlands); pellock; porpess; puffing pig; puffy-dunter; sea-hog; sea-pig; Морська свиня sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

English-United States: Common Porpoise; Harbour Porpoise sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: izurdia

Faroese: nise

French: marsouin; marsouin commun; phocene marsouin; poursille sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Braunfisch; kleiner Tummler; Kleiner Tümmler; Meerschwein; Schweinswal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Van Gompel, John

Greek: Φώκαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greenlandic: piglertok

Icelandic: bruinskop; handfiskar; hnisa

Irish: muc mhara

Italian: focena; marsuino sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: nezumi iruka

Kalaallisut: piglertok

Korean: soe-dolgorae

Latin: maris sus

Latvian: jurascuka

Lithuanian: paprastoji jūrų kiaulė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: marsvün; nesa, nise or nisa; nise sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: nise sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:77

Norwegian Nynorsk: nise sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:77

Nynorsk (Norwegian): nise sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: morświn; morświn (zwyczajny); morświn zwyczajny; swinia morska sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: boto

Romanian: focena

Russian: azovka; azovka (Black and Azov Seas); azovskii delfin; azovskii delfin (Azov Sea); burtuk; chuska; morskaya svinya; pyktun; sapun; shutnik; svinka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish: pellock

Slovenian: pristaniška rjava pliskavka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: marsopa; marsopa común; marsopa de bahia; marsopa de portena; puerco de mar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

Swedish: marsvin; nise; trumblare; tumlare

Turkish: bayağı musur; bayağı musur (balina); mutur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Морська свиня; Фоцена звичайна sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: llamhidydd

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Gaskin, D. E., P. E. Arnold and B. A. Blair. (1974). Phocoena phocoena. Mammalian Species 42:1--8.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications)
Barcode of Life (31 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (606 nucleotides; 161 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137117