East Asian finless porpoise | |
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At Miyajima Public Aquarium | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Phocoenidae |
Genus: | Neophocaena |
Species: | N. sunameri
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Binomial name | |
Neophocaena sunameri Pilleri & Gihr, 1975
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The East Asian finless porpoise (Neophocaena sunameri) is a species of porpoise native to the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and the seas around Japan. The Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis) was formerly considered a subspecies but is now thought to be a distinct species.[2]