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Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958 
AphiaID: 343897

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Phocoenidae (Family) > Phocoena (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1816
Sources  original description: Norris, K. S. and W. N. McFarland. (1958). A new harbor porpoise of the genus Phocoena from the Gulf of California. Journal of Mammalogy 39:22--39. [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Brownell, R. L., Jr. (1983). Phocoena sinus. Mammalian Species 198:1--3. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Gulf of California harbor porpoise  [details]
English vaquita  [details]
French marsouin du golfe de Californie  [details]
French vaquita  [details]
Japanese kogashira nezumi iruka  [details]
Russian kaliforniyskaya morskaya svinya  [details]
Spanish cochito  [details]
Spanish marsopa de Golfo de California  [details]
Spanish vaquita  [details]
Spanish vaquita marina  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of California [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: coastal [details]

Holotype: Skull in Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A., no. 120933, collected March 18, 1950 by Kenneth S. Norris. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Critically Endangered (CR) [details]

Type locality: Northeast shore of Punta San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Gulf of California (Mar de Cortez), Mexico. [details]
Images 
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico
added on 2009-04-29 - author: Thomas Jefferson ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-29 18:17:07

Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Note large triangular dorsal fin, unlike that of other porpoises.
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Note large triangular dorsal fin, unlike that of other porpoises.
added on 2009-04-29 - author: Thomas Jefferson ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-29 18:19:08
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343897
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-04-11 11:37:23Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=343897 on 2013-06-19
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