Spectacled porpoise
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The spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) is a small to midsize porpoise indigenous to the Southern Ocean. It is one of the most poorly studied cetaceans, partly due to its remote range in the southern ocean. What little is known about this porpoise species has been gathered mainly from stranded individuals, and a few observations of living animals made at sea.[3]
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Spectacled porpoise | |
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Subadult female spectacled porpoise | |
Size compared to an average human | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Phocoenidae |
Genus: | Phocoena |
Species: | P. dioptrica |
Binomial name | |
Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 | |
Spectacled porpoise range | |
Synonyms | |
Australophocaena dioptrica |
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