Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958 
AphiaID: 343897

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

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 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. 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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=343897 on 2013-06-19