Indo-Pacific finless porpoise

Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
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CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Phocoenidae
Genus: Neophocaena
Species:
N. phocaenoides
Binomial name
Neophocaena phocaenoides
(G. Cuvier, 1829)

The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) is one of eight porpoise species. The species ranges throughout most of the Indian Ocean, as well as the tropical and subtropical Pacific from Indonesia north to the Taiwan Strait. Overlapping with this species in the Taiwan Strait and replacing it northwards is the East Asian finless porpoise (N. sunameri).

  1. ^ Wang, J.Y.; Reeves, R. (2017). "Neophocaena phocaenoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T198920A50386795. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T198920A50386795.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.