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Taxon: Genus Phocoena Cuvier, 1817 - common porpoises (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation G. Cuvier, 1817
Original name Cuvier, G. 1817: 279.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofPhocoenidae (Family) Gray, 1825 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 137. [inferred]
Type ofPhocoeninae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825
Type, by original designationPhocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Variants

Different spellingPhocaena (Genus) Cuvier, 1817

Synonyms

IncludingAustralophocaena (Genus) Barnes, 1985 Ref: PBDB: [16 Jul 2022].

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namebruinvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namecommon porpoises
harbor porpoises
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