The Black Sea population has been named 

 P. p. relicta Abel, 1905. 



Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958 

 (Gulf of California porpoise). Upper Gulf 

 of California; sight records farther south 

 are questionable. 



Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 (spectacled 

 porposie). Coast of Argentina, the Falk- 

 land Islands, and South Georgia. 



Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 

 (black porpoise). Coasts of Argentina, 

 Chile and Peru. 



Genus NEOPHOCAENA Palmer, 1899 



Neophocaena phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829 

 (black finless porpoise). Warm coastal 

 waters and certain rivers from India east 

 to Japan, Borneo, and Java, The type 

 specinnen allegedly came from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, but the occurrence of the 

 species there has been questioned. Peter 

 Best (South African Division of Sea Fish- 

 eries, in litt.) stated that there are no 

 indisputable South African records. The 

 species, being coastal, almost certainly 

 would have been seen if present. Indian 

 Ocean specimens may be taxonomically 

 distinct from those of China and Japan 

 (Fraser, 1966). 



Genus PHOCOENOIDES Andrews, 1911 



Phocoenoides dalli True, 1885 (Dall por- 

 poise; white-flanked porpoise). Immediate 

 offshore waters of the North Pacific 

 from Japan and southern California north 

 to the southern Bering Sea. It now appears 

 that True's porpoise, P^. truei Andrews, 

 1911, may be a color phase of P_. dalli ; 

 this problem is being investigated by 

 W. J. Houck (Humboldt State College) and 

 M. Nishiwaki. 



Family MONODONTIDAE 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS Lace'pede, 1804 



Delphinapterus leucas Pallas, 1776 (beluga; 

 white whale). Arctic Ocean and adjacent 

 seas, including Okhotsk and Bering Seas, 

 and James Bay; also Gulf of St. Lawrence; 

 ascends several hundred miles up larger 

 rivers of Siberia and Alaska. Three races 

 are currently recognized: D. _1 . dorofeevi 

 Barabash and Klumov, 1935, from the 

 Okhotsk Sea; D. 1. marisalbi Ostroumov, 

 1935, in the Barents and White Seas; and 

 D. _1. leucas in the rest of the range. 

 More study of geographical variation is 

 needed. 



Genus MONODON Linnaeus, 1758 



Monodon nnonoceros Linnaeus, 1758 (nar- 

 whal). North polar seas. 



Family PHYSETERIDAE 



Genus PHYSETER Linnaeus, 1758 



Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758 (spernn 

 whale). All oceans (except polar ice 

 fields). 



Genus KOGIA Gray, 1846 



Handley (1966) has reviewed the distin- 

 guishing features of the two species in 

 this genus. 



Kogia breviceps Blainville, 1838 (pygmy 

 sperm whale). World-wide in tropical 

 and warm temperate v/aters. 



Kogia simus Owen, 1866 (dwarf sperm 

 whale). The seas adjacent to South Africa, 

 India, Ceylon, Japan, Hawaii, Baja Cali- 

 fornia, and eastern United States. 



Family ZIPHIIDAE 



Genus TASMACETUS Oliver, 1937 



Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937(Tasman 

 beaked whale). Known only fronn four 

 specimens stranded on New Zealand. 



Genus MESOPLODON Gervais, 1850 



Twelve species are currently recognized by 

 Moore and Gilmore (1965). The genus is being 

 revised by Moore. 



Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby, 1804 (North 

 Sea beaked whale). Cool temperate waters 

 of the North Atlantic from New England 

 to the North Sea. 



Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais, 1855 (An- 

 tillean beaked whale). Western North 

 Atlantic from Trinidad, Jamaica, and the 

 Gulf of Mexico, to Long Island, N. Y.; one 

 record from southern England. 



Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913 (True 

 beaked whale). North Atlantic from 

 Florida and Nova Scotia east to the 

 British Isles; one record from South 

 Africa. 



Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, 1926 (Long- 

 man beaked whale). Known from only 

 one specimen stranded at Mackay, Queens- 

 land, Australia. 



Mesoplodon erayi Haast, 1876 (scamper- 

 down whale). South Africa, South Australia, 

 New Zealand, Chatham Islands, and 

 Argentina; one record from the Nether- 

 lands. 



Mesoplodon hectori Gray, 1871 (Hector 

 beaked whale). Known only from Tasmania, 

 New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands. 



Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885 (Bering 

 Sea beaked whale). Subarctic waters of 

 the North Pacific fronn the Bering Sea 

 south to Japan and Oregon. 



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