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Phocoena phocoena

Harbor Porpoise

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137117ITIS 180473key worms:137117
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180473 via WoRMS external link

calcofi:marine_mammals

The harbour porpoise is one of eight extant species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest species of cetacean.W CalCOFI holds 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2004.R

11
observations
11
records
11
sampling events
1989–2004
years
1
datasets
2 m
max length
Photograph of Phocoena phocoena
Photo · Ecomare/Salko de Wolf Den Hoorn Texel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:137117%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 2 m max
Harbor Porpoise2 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Phocoena
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗