Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: Baltic Sea, “Swedish Seas.”

DISTRIBUTION: Temperate to arctic N. Pacific and N. Atlantic; isolated population in Black Sea.

COMMENT: Reviewed by Gaskin et al., 1974, Mamm. Species, 42:1-8.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002019002001.