harbour porpoise
Phocoena phocoena
Category: Whales & Dolphins
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetartiodactyla
- Family
- Phocoenidae
- Genus
- Phocoena
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 9 countries and 3 regions.
- Sal, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Bornholm, Denmark - 58 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 1252 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 15 records
- Strytan & North Iceland, Iceland - 67 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 2505 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 182 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 10 records
- Azores, Portugal - 3 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 4 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 8581 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 2877 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 1229 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 12780 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 647 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 8542 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 532 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 3 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 98 records
- Alaska, United States - 3 records
- Pacific Northwest, United States - 777 records