Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Phocoenidae > Genus Phocoena

Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phocoena*	G. Cuvier, 1816	accepted genus name
*Phocaena*	Lesson, 1827	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aleut: aladak; alagikkh

Basque: izurdia

Bulgarian: mutkur; Муткур sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: marsopa comuna

Czech: svinucha pobrezní

Danish: marsvin; tumler

Dutch: bruinvis; bruinvisch; tonyn; zee-vark sources: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

English: bay porpoise; bucker; common porpoise; harbor porpoise; harbour porpoise; herring hog; hogfish; neesock; nisack (Shetlands); pellock; porpess; puffing pig; puffy-dunter; sea-hog; sea-pig sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

Faroese: nise

French: marsouin; marsouin commun; phocene marsouin; poursille sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Braunfisch; kleiner Tummler; Meerschwein; Schweinswal sources: Van Gompel, John

Greek: Φώκαινα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: bruinskop; handfiskar; hnisa

Irish: muc mhara

Italian: focena; marsuino sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: nezumi iruka; ネズミイルカ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Kalaallisut: piglertok

Korean: soe-dolgorae

Latin: maris sus

Latvian: jurascuka

Lithuanian: paprastoji jūrų kiaulė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: marsvün; nesa, nise or nisa; nise; tumler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: nise sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: nise sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: morświn; morświn (zwyczajny); morświn zwyczajny; swinia morska sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: boto; toninha

Romanian: focena

Russian: azovka; azovka (Black and Azov Seas); azovskii delfin; azovskii delfin (Azov Sea); burtuk; chuska; morskaya svinya; pyktun; sapun; shutnik; svinka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: pellock

Slovenian: pristaniška rjava pliskavka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: marsopa; marsopa común; marsopa de bahia; marsopa de portena; puerco de mar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

Swedish: marsvin; nise; trumblare; tumlare

Turkish: bayağı musur; bayağı musur (balina); mutur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Морська свиня; Фоцена звичайна sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: llamhidydd

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Gaskin, D. E., P. E. Arnold and B. A. Blair. (1974). Phocoena phocoena. Mammalian Species 42:1--8.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137117