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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  [request]
basis of record
Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Introduction Regarding the four indigenous marine mammals of the Belgian Continental Shelf, the harbour porpoise is the most common species. It is, however, difficult to estimate the total population size which harbours our shelf during winter. But it is sure that our population is of minor importance on the international level. At the Belgian coast, the harbour porpoise seems not to prefer a certain area above another, although clearly avoids the shallower parts along the West coast and the heavily navigated lanes around the port of Zeebrugge.
White-beaked dolphins are quite common in the Southern North Sea, but are rarely seen at the Belgian Continental Shelf. This also accounts for the harbour and the grey seals, which are real coastal inhabitants and rarely occur in open sea. Every winter, few harbour seals stay at the mouth of the Yzer in Nieuwpoort, occasionally some specimens are reported at other places on the Belgian coast. [details]
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