Herbour dunter

Herbour dunter[1]
Size comparison against an average human
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Odontoceti
Faimily:	Phocoenidae
Genus:	Phocoena
Species:	P. phocoena
Binomial name
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
Harbour dunter range

The herbour dunter (Phocoena phocoena) is ane o sax species o porpoise. It is ane o the smawest marine mammals. As its name implies, it stays close tae coastal auries or river estuaries, an as sic, is the maist familiar porpoise tae whaul watchers. This dunter eften venturs up rivers, an haes been seen hunders o miles frae the sea. The harbour dunter mey be polytypic, wi geografically distinct populations representin distinct races: P. p. phocoena in the North Atlantic an Wast Africae, P. p. relicta in the Black Sea an Sea o Azov, an unnamed population in the northwast Paceefic an P. p. vomerina in the northeast Paceefic.^[3]