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Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

by Robert A. Sterndale

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Genus Phocæna — The Porpoises

No beak or rostrum; snout short and convex; numerous teeth in both jaws. Kellaart testifies to the existence of a true porpoise on the coasts of Ceylon—which he identifies with Phocæna communis—of a blackish colour above and whitish beneath.

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