Neophocaena sunameri
Pilleri & Gihr, 1976
East Asian Finless Porpoise
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Cetacea |
| Parvorder | : Odontoceti |
| Superfamily | : Delphinoidea |
| Family | : Phocoenidae |
| Genus | : Neophocaena |
Species status
Authority citation
Pilleri, G. and Gihr, M. 1976-04-30. On the taxonomy and ecology of the finless black porpoise, Neophocaena (Cetacea, Delphinidae). Mammalia 39(4):657-673.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1975.39.4.657Original name as described
Neophocaena sunameri
Other common names
West Pacific Finless Porpoise
Type material
RMNH.MAM.23079
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.23079Type locality
Tachibana Bay, Nagasaki, Japan.
Biogeographic realm
Marine
Country distribution
Japan · North Korea? · South Korea · China · Taiwan
Taxonomy notes
split from N. asiaeorientalis after that species had been split from N. phocaenoides
Taxonomy notes citation
Wang, J.Y., Frasier, T.R., Yang, S.C. and White, B.N. 2008. Detecting recent speciation events: the case of the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena). Heredity 101: 145-155. · Jefferson, T. A., & Wang, J. Y. (2011). Revision of the taxonomy of finless porpoises (genus Neophocaena): the existence of two species. Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology, 4(1), 3-16. · Zhou, X., Guang, X., Sun, D., Xu, S., Li, M., Seim, I., ... & Gao, Q. (2018). Population genomics of finless porpoises reveal an incipient cetacean species adapted to freshwater. Nature communications, 9(1), 1-8.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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