Talk:Finless porpoise

Requested move 28 August 2021

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The result of the move request was: moved. Already moved by Elmidae. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 21:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

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• Neophocaena → Finless porpoise
• Finless porpoise → Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
• Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis → Yangtze finless porpoise
• Narrow-ridged finless porpoise → East Asian finless porpoise

– There have been significant taxonomic revisions in Neophocaena over the last decade. Neophocaena, which was formerly a monotypic genus known as the finless porpoise, is now known to contain up to 3 different species, all of which have "finless porpoise" in their names. However, the original species classified in Neophocaena presently is referred to as just "finless porpoise", despite the fact that based on its range and all the taxonomic authorities, it should be the "Indo-Pacific finless porpoise", with "finless porpoise" being the generic genus name. N. asiaorientalis asiaorientalis is now considered a distinct species on its own, and in any case it should be referred to with its common name, Yangtze finless porpoise. "Narrow-ridged finless porpoise" was a term for N. asiaeorientalis back when it contained both the Yangtze and East Asian species, but with both species split, the other species should be renamed "East Asian finless porpoise" as per the taxonomic authorities, and "Narrow-ridge finless porpoise" should become a disambiguation.Geekgecko (talk) 06:03, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

• Sounds good to me, provided the common species names are in reasonably frequent use (if not, would suggest moving the genus to "finless porpoise" and keeping the species at scientific). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:28, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Yes, all three names are accepted by the ASM MammalDiversity Database and seem to be in frequent use when finless porpoises are thought to be multiple species. "Narrow-ridged finless porpoise" is used more often than "East Asian finless porpoise", but "narrow-ridged finless porpoise" refers to the combination of East Asian and Yangtze porpoises (considered conspecific until recently), so I'd make that a disambiguation with both pages.Geekgecko (talk) 16:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Hm, so can it be done?Geekgecko (talk) 18:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
• Good additions. If you need help doing it let me know. J0ngM0ng (talk) 02:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Thanks, if you have privileges to move pages and rearrange their names, you should do it.Geekgecko (talk) 04:15, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done, I hope. This felt uncomfortably like juggling eggs :p I think the various immediate redirects are all fine, but it probably produced a number of double redirects that I haven't hunted down. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:31, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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