Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
| Indo-Pacific finless porpoise | |
|---|---|
| Illustration for an Indonesian stamp | |
| Scientific 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).
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