Neophocaena phocaenoides (Cuvier, 1829) 
AphiaID: 254985

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Phocoenidae > Neophocaena

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Neophocaena Palmer, 1899
Synonymised taxa		Delphinapterus molagan Owen, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus melas Temminck, 1841 (synonym) Delphinus phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829 (basionym) Neomeris kurrachiensis Murray, 1884 (synonym) Neomeris melas Temminck, 1841 (synonym) Neomeris phocaenoides Gray, 1847 (synonym) Neomeris phocaenoides True, 1889 (synonym) Neophocaena phocoenoides Robineau, 1990 (synonym) Nomerus melus Coues, 1890 (synonym) Phaoecana phocaenoides G. M. Allen, 1923 (synonym) Phocaena phocaenoides Blanford, 1888 (synonym) Phocoena phocaenoides Robinson & Kloss, 1918 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406. page(s): 291 [details] basis of record: 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: Robineau, D. (1990). Les types de cétacés actuels du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. II. Delphinidae, Phocoenidae. Bull. Mus. nat. Paris 4th sér., 12, section A, no. 1:197—238. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A. and S. K. Hung. (2004). Neophocaena phocaenoides. Mammalian Species 746:1--12. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans vinlose seevark  [details] Chinese chiang zhu  [details] Chinese hai chu  [details] Dutch Indische bruinvis  [details] English black finless porpoise  [details] English finless black porpoise  [details] English finless porpoise  [details] English finless-backed porpoise  [details] English Indian dolphin  [details] English Indian finless porpoise  [details] English little Indian porpoise  [details] French marsouin aptere  [details] French marsouin noir  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba tak bersirip punggung hi tam  [details] Japanese nomeno juo  [details] Japanese sunameri  [details] Korean sang-gwaeng-i  [details] Malayalam eleyan eedi  [details] Maria (India) bhulga  [details] Norwegian finnelos nise  [details] Persian pufku  [details] Portuguese toninha indo-pacífica  [details] Russian besperaia morskaia svinia  [details] Sindhi tabi  [details] Southern Balochi tabi  [details] Spanish marsopa lisa  [details] Spanish marsopa sin aleta  [details] Tamil minikutty  [details] Tamil molagan  [details] Thai plaloma hudbadlangriab  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis Pilleri & Gihr, 1972 Subspecies Neophocaena phocaenoides phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829 Subspecies Neophocaena phocaenoides sunameri Pilleri & Gihr, 1975
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh
Distribution		Indo-West Pacific [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (802 nucleotides; 312 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: coastal marine, also in rivers [details] Holotype: Skull in the Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), no. CAC A.3086, JAC 1881-231 collected by Dussumier. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Vulnerable (VU) [details] Type locality: Given as "du Cap" (from the Cape of Good Hope) by Cuvier. However, no specimens have been collected or other reliable records made from Africa since. Robineau (1990)reviewed Paris Museum holdings and accession records and collection notes of Dussumier and made a convincing case that the true type locality is Malabar Coast of India. Cuvier apparently just made a mistake; Dussumier donated other "marsouins" (Cephalorhynchus)from the Cape of Good Hope at the same time that he donated the type specimen of the finless porpoise from India. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 56) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:17:27 Neophocaena phocaenoides added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-20 00:00:46 Finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides/i>) added on 2009-04-28 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 23:46:15
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254985
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-22 19:25:59Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William 2009-03-11 12:36:54Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Neophocaena phocaenoides (Cuvier, 1829). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254985 on 2013-05-22