Harbour Porpoise

Phocoena phocoena

Common & widespread around the British coast.

Also in the temperate in the North Pacific & North Atlantic Oceans, exceptionally in European seas including the Baltic, Mediterranean now very rare in that area & the Black Sea.

The body is robust, and the animal is at its maximum girth just in front of its triangular dorsal fin.

The beak is poorly demarcated.

The flippers, dorsal fin, tail fin and back are a dark grey.

The sides are a slightly speckled, lighter grey.

The underside is much whiter, though there are usually grey stripes running along the throat from the underside of the body.