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Neophocaena phocaenoides (Finless Porpoise)

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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Neophocaena phocaenoides

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.71
EDGE Score: 3.76
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  10 months 20 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  33 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5.248 feet (160 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams, Coastal
Weaning [2]  10 months 20 days
Adult Weight [2]  71.651 lbs (32.50 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  15.432 lbs (7.00 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  6 years
Male Maturity [2]  4 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ao Phang Nga National Park Marine National Park II 103730 Thailand
Berbak National Park II 423927 Sumatra, Indonesia
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Ammodytes personatus (Pacific sandlance)[5]
Crangon affinis (Japanese sand shrimp)[5]
Scomber japonicus (Striped mackerel)[5]
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese scad)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific White-sided Dolphin)1
Muraenesox cinereus (Dagger-tooth pike-conger)1
Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin)1
Trichiurus lepturus (Atlantic Cutlassfish)1

Predators

Orcinus orca (Killer Whale)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Neophocaena phocaenoides, Thomas A. Jefferson and Samuel K. Hung, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 746, pp. 1–12 (2004)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0