Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Phocaena Cuvier, 1817

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Genus Phocaena Cuvier, 1817

  • Phocaena Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1817. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle appliquée aux arts ... par une Société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Paris [163] [replacement name for Phocoena Cuvier].
  • Phocoena Cuvier, G.L. 1816. Le Régne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. L'Introduction, les Mammiéres et les Oiseaux. Paris : Déterville Vol. 1 xxxvii 540 pp. [279].
    Type species:
     Phocoena phocoena Cuvier, 1816 by absolute tautonymy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Mead, J.G. & Brownell, R.L. 1993. Order Cetacea. pp. 349-364 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press 1206 pp. [358].
  • Australophocaena Barnes, L.G. 1985. Evolution, taxonomy and antitropical distribution of the the porpoises (Phocoenidae, Mammalia). Marine Mammal Science 1: 149-163 [153].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal, mainly cold-temperate waters.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: G. Aust. Bight, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • 200 mile fishing zone: S oceanic

Distribution References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259