Species Detail - Common Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Northern Ireland Mammal Database".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Species image
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Phocoena phocoena
Common Porpoise
NBNSYS0000005172
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phpho
(Linnaeus, 1758)
marine mammal
Species
139
29
11
04/12/1968
20/06/2015
1 January (recorded in 1900)
31 December (recorded in 2006)
Centre for Data and Environmental Recording (CEDaR), Northern Ireland Mammal Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/230/Species/134662>