Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) Author Frederick W True (1858–1914) (Frederick William True)
Description
English: Neomeris phocaenoides, (Cuvier) Gray. The Nameno-juo .
Length, 4 feet (After Schlegel.
Subject: Finless porpoise, Porpoises
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1883
Source/Photographer
English: True, Frederick W. (1885) Suggestions to the keepers of the U. S. Lifesaving stations, light-houses, and light-ships, and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises, Report of the Commissioner (United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries), 1883, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_34109_Neomeris_phocaenoides,_(Cuvier)_Gray_The_Nameno-juo.jpeg
The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), or finless porpoise, is one of seven porpoise species. Most of the population has been found around the Korean peninsula in the Yellow and East China Seas, although a freshwater population is found around Jiuduansha near Shanghai at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. Genetic studies indicate that the finless porpoise is the most basal living member of the porpoise family.