Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
Abstract currently unavailable
Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Clapham, P. J.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
Abstract currently unavailable
A review of human impact on small cetaceans
Northridge, S.; Pilleri, G.
Investigations on Cetacea (1986)
(...) This document attempts to gather together as much information as is available on the extent of current killings of small cetaceans throughout the world, and also to highlight some…
DDT residues in blubber of harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.), from eastern Canadian waters during the five-year period 1969-1973
Gaskin, D. E.; Holdrinet, M.; Frank, R.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
Samples of blubber from 60 male and 55 female harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) collected from 1969 to 1973, all but 11 from the east and west coast approaches to the…
Review of small cetaceans: Distribution, behaviour, migration and threats
Culik, Boris
(2004)
This report summarises the available knowledge on odontocete (toothed whale) distribution, behaviour, migration and threats and was compiled for the Bonn Secretariat of CMS.
Preliminary report on the ecology of the finless porpoise in Hong Kong waters
Jefferson, T. A.; Braulik, G. T.
IBI Reports (1999)
Two species of small cetaceans, the Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin and the finless porpoise, occur year-round in waters of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Research conducted from September 1995 to…
PCBs, cause of death and body condition in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from British waters
Kuiken, Thijs; Bennett, Peter M.; Allchin, Colin R.; Kirkwood, James K.; Baker, John R.; Lockyer, Christina H.; Walton, Michael J.; Sheldrick, Martin C.
Aquatic Toxicology (1994)
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) suppress immunity, and may have exacerbated the effects of recent morbillivirus epizootics in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). To test the hypothesis that…
Temporal variation and biomagnification of organohalogen compounds in finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) from the South China Sea
Ramu, Karri; Kajiwara, Natsuko; Lam, Paul K. S.; Jefferson, Thomas A.; Zhou, Kaiya; Tanabe, Shinsuke
Environmental Pollution (2006)
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and organochlorine compounds (OCs) were determined in the blubber of male finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) collected in 1990 and 2000/01 from the South China Sea. Among…
Abundance decline in the finless porpoise population in the Inland Sea of Japan
Kasuya, T.; Yamamoto, Y.; Iwatsuki, T.
The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (2002)
From 5 March to 1 July, 1999 and 2000, we made six shipboard surveys for finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in the Inland Sea, which is believed to be inhabited by…
Status and conservation of facultative freshwater cetaceans in Asia
Smith, B. D.; Jefferson, T. A.
The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (2002)
Irrawaddy dolphins Orcaella brevirostris and finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides are referred to as facultative freshwater cetaceans because they occupy both fresh- and nearshore marine waters. In Asia, the especially rapid…