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Genus PHOCOENA G. Cuvier 



Phoccena G. Cuvier, 1817, Regne animal, ed. 1, 1:279 [type species: 



Delphinus phocoena Linnaeus, by monotypy]. — Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. 



Diet. Hist. Nat., 9: 163 [characters]. — Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, 



Zool., 39: 551 [nomenclature]. 

 Phocoena Norris and McFarland, 1958, Journ. Mammal., 39: 22 [taxo- 



nomic review]. 

 Phocena Gray, 1821, Med. Repository, 15: 310 [emendation or misprint 



of Phoccena Cuvier; includes species P. phocena (sic) Linnaeus]. 

 Phoccena Gray, 1828, Spicilegia Zoologica, 1: 2 [subgenus of Delphinus 



Linnaeus for "Z). Phoccena (sic) of Linne"]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales 



Brit. Mus., p. 301 [review]. — Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1883: 505 [taxonomy].— True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 117, 



179 [taxonomy]. 

 Phocaena Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq., 194 [history; 



relationship; body temperature]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. 



Gen., 3: 253, 285, 291 [characters; classification]. 

 Acanthodelphis Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 304 [type 



species: Phoccena (sic) spinipinnis Burmeister, by monotypy]. 

 Type species : Delphinus phoccena Linnaeus, by monotypy. 

 Distribution : Arctic and North Atlantic : from Barents Sea and Davis 

 Strait to New Jersey on the west, the Mediterranean on the east; South 

 Atlantic: from Rio de la Plata (35° S.) to Cape Horn and South Georgia; 

 Arctic and North Pacific : from Alaska to coast of Jalisco, Mexico, on the 

 east and the Japanese Sea on the west; South Pacific: from Paita, Peru 

 (5° S.), to Cape Horn. 



Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister 



Phocaena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 

 228. — Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 304 [char- 

 acters]. — Burmeister, 1867, Zeitschr. Gesammten Naturw., 29: 4 [S. 

 Atlantic: Argentina (Buenos Aires)]; 1869, Anal. Mus. Publ. Buenos 

 Aires, 1(6): 380, pi. 23 (animal), pi. 24 (skull) [characters]. — True, 

 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 122, 180, pi. 36, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 

 2 (skull) [taxonomic review]. — Figueira, 1894, Anal. Mus. Nac. Monte- 

 video, 2: 12 (separate) [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Rio de La Plata, 

 Argentina)]. — Lahille, 1899, Primera reunion del Congreso Latino- 

 americano, 3: 201 [listed]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 251 

 [characters]. — True, 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 16: 136, 143 

 [Phocaena philippii Perez Canto a synonym]. — Lahille, 1905, Rev. 

 Jardin Zool. Buenos Aires, 1905: 57 [characters]. — G. M. Allen, 1925, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 67: 251 [S. Pacific: Peru (Payta =Paita); 

 taxonomy; external and osteological characters; comparisons; philippii 

 Perez Canto a synonym]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant 

 fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 310, fig. 73 (animal) [characters]. — 



