Bioacoustics (2010)
Sound plays an important role for toothed whales in foraging and communication. However, little is known about acoustic communication in the toothed whale species that only produce narrow band high…
Investigations on cetacean sonar XI: Intrinsic comparison of the wave shapes of some members of the Phocoenidae family
Kamminga, C.; Cohen Stuart, A.; Silber, G. K.
Aquatic Mammals (1996)
A comparison of the acoustic waveforms of three different species, Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena sinus and Neophocaena phocaenoides of the sub-family Phocoeninae is made with the species Phocoenoides dalli of the…
Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena vomerina, in Cook Inlet, Alaska
Shelden, K.E.W.; Agler, B.A.; Brueggeman, J.J.; Cornick, L.A.; Speckman, S.G.; Prevel-Ramos, A.
Marine Fisheries Review (2014)
Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena vomerina, in Cook Inlet, Alaska, are managed as part of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) stock. It is not known if this population is distinct from…
First records of anomalously white harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Turkish seas with a global review
Tonay, Arda M.; Bilgin, Sabri; Dede, Ayhan; Akkaya, Aylin; Yeşilçiçek, Tuncay; Köse, Özay; Ceylan, Yusuf
Hystrix - The Italian Journal of Mammalogy (2012)
Three anomalously white harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were reported from Turkish Seas. One of them was bycaught on 19 June 2011 in bottom gill nets off the eastern coast of…
Acoustic signals of the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)
Silber, G.K.
Aquatic Mammals (1991)
This report describes the first sounds recorded from the phocoenid porpoise, vaquita, (Phocoena sinus, Norris & McFarland, 1958). High-frequency recordings were obtained near free-ranging vaquita in the northern Gulf of…
Aspects of the biology of Burmeister’s porpoise from Peru
Reyes, J.C.; van Waerebeek, K
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis), one of the most common small cetaceans in Peruvian waters, suffers the second highest fishing mortality. Biological data obtained from porpoises caught in gillnets off Peru…
Phocoena spinipinnis
Brownell, R.L. Jr.; Praderi, R
Mammalian Species (1984)
(...) Phocoena spinipinnis may be distinguished externally from all other members of the genus by the slightly convexed anterior and posterior borders and the rounded blunt tip of the dorsal…
Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
Allen, G.M.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1925)
(...) In 1872, Louis Agassiz undertook a voyage around the continent of South America on the ship Hassler for the purpose of zoological investigation. No detailed account of this expedition…
Osteological variation in the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
Perrin, William F.; Goodall, R. Natalie P.; Cozzuol, Mario A.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2000)
Cranial and post-cranial variation is described for a large series of specimens of spectacled porpoise from Argentina and compared with that for specimens from other areas of the Southern Hemisphere.…
First mitochondrial DNA analysis of the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Pimper, Lida Elena; Goodall, Rae Natalie Prosser; Remis, María Isabel
Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde (2012)
The spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica, Lahille, 1912)is one of the cetacean species about which least is known. Most information on the biology and ecology of this species has been obtained…