Species Detail - Common Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds and Sea (ESAS) Cetacean Sightings 1980-2023".
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
743
185
124
29/07/1980
06/03/2010
1 January (recorded in 1900)
31 December (recorded in 2006)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds and Sea (ESAS) Cetacean Sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/406/Species/134662>