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Porpoise Por"poise, n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally, hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See Pork, and Fish.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phoc[ae]na, especially P. communis, or P. phoc[ae]na, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors. Skunk porpoise, or Bay porpoise (Zo["o]l.), a North American porpoise (Lagenorhynchus acutus), larger than the common species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the sides. See Illustration in Appendix.

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- Phocoenidae PaleoDB taxon number: 63542 Alternative spellings: Delphinus (Phocaena), Phocaena Synonyms: Acanthodelphis Gray 1866 (no. 102874), Australophocaena...
- The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest species of cetacean. As its name implies...
- orca Synonyms Gladiator Gray, 1870 Ophesia Gray, 1868 Ophysia Gray, 1868 Orca Gray, 1846 Phocaena Gray, 1846 Grampus Iredale & Troughton (not Gray), 1933...
- 8 (3): 265–27. doi:10.47536/jcrm.v8i3.722. S2CID 257454374. "Species Phocaena dioptrica Lahille, 1912". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government...
- Φωκᾶς, romanized: Phōkâs) or Phocas (Latinized), feminine form Phokaina or Phocaena (Φώκαινα, Phṓkaina), was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic clan from...
- The only whale common in Danish waters is the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocaena). The whale hunters linked their boats across the rather narrow Little...
- white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris), and harbour porpoise (Phocaena phocaena). The hunting of these species is carried out in much the same way...
- toothed grampus" in light of this and ****igned the animal to the genus Phocaena (a genus of porpoises) which Risso's dolphin was also ****igned to in 1846...
- Morrison-Scott, 1951 Orcaella fluminalis Gray, 1871 Orcella brevirostris Anderson, 1871 Orcella fluminalis Anderson, 1871 Phocaena (Orca) brevirostris Owen, 1866...
- discovered by telescope. English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding...