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…
Ontogenetic development of the nervus terminalis in toothed whales
Buhl, E. H.; Oelschläger, H. A.
Anatomy and Embryology (1986)
For the first time in cetaceans, the development of the terminalis system and its continuity between the olfactory placode and the telencephalon has been demonstrated by light microscopy. In the…
Perinatal growth of delphinoids: Information from aquarium reared bottlenose dolphins and finless porpoises
Kasuya, T.; Tobayama, T.; Saiga, T.; Kataoka, T.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1986)
The early postnatal growth of bottlenose dolphins and finless porpoises was studied using 97 body length records of 61 individuals born in aquariums. The growth rates observed were similar to…
Genetic variability and differentiation in the toothed whales
Shimura, E.; Numachi, K.-I.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1987)
Genetic variability and differentiation of three families containing 12 species of toothed whales mainly from the sea around Japan have been examined by starch-gel electrophoresis at 19 genetic loci encoding…
On three odontocete skulls from Heard Island
Guiler, E. R.; Burton, H. R.; Gales, N. J.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1987)
Two crania and a rostrum were recovered from Heard Island by the 1985 Australian National Antarctic Expedition to that island. The specimens were assigned to three species, two of which,…
External morphology and pigmentation of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus
Brownell, Robert L.; Findley, Lloyd T.; Vidal, Omar; Robles, Alejandro; Silvia Manzanilla, N
Marine Mammal Sci (1987)
The vaquita, Phocoena sinus, is a porpoise in the family Phocoenidae that lives only in the Gulf of California. The external appearance of P. sinus was unknown until 13 fresh…
Morphometric and meristic comparisons of skulls of harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.) from the North Atlantic and North Pacific
Yurick, Douglas B.; Gaskin, David. E.
Ophelia (1987)
Highly significant (α = 0.01) differences in analysis of 473 skulls of harbour porpoises indicate separate eastern Pacific, western Atlantic, and eastern Atlantic populations. Including the isolated population in the…
A study of the behavior of Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) in the Johnstone Strait, British Columbia
Jefferson, Thomas A.
Can. J. Zool. (1987)
The behavior of Dall's porpoise was studied in the western Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, during the summer of 1984. Observations and theodolite trackings were made from a cliff-top observation point…
Distribution of mother-calf Dall’s porpoise pairs as an indication of calving grounds and stock identity
Kasuya, T.; Ogi, H.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1987)
Eighty nine mother-calf Dall's porpoise pairs were sighted in August and September 1982, 1983 and 1985 in the Bering Sea and the western North Pacific (outside the principal range of…
Phocoenoides dalli
Jefferson, Thomas A.
Mammalian Species (1988)
(...) Order Cetacea, Suborder Odontoceti, Family Phocoenidae. The family contains four extant genera: Phocoena, Australophocaena, Neophocaena, and Phocoenoides (Barnes, 1985). Barnes (1984, 1985) has proposed two subfamilies within the Phocoenidae.…