Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
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Observations on Pacific cetaceans of Californian and Mexican waters
Norris, K. S.; Prescott, J. H.
University of California Publications in Zoology (1961)
(...) For five years we have systematically gathered information of every available kind related to these animals. Fifteen species have been observed in sufficient detail to be considered here. These…
Investigations on the osteology and the functional morphology of the flipper of whales and dolphins (Cetacea)
Benke, H.
Investigations on Cetacea (1993)
Of the 79 recent species of cetaceans 51 have been examined relative to the osteology of the flipper and the scapula and, in addition to this, video-recordings of 13 different…
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…
Current understanding of the status of small cetacean populations in the Black Sea
Smith, T. D.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
A fishery using guns and nets for the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, Azov dolphin, Phocoena phocoena, and bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, in the Black and Azov Seas has been pursued…
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…
Status of Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis, in southern South American waters
Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Praderi, R.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
This paper reviews current knowledge of Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis), probably the most abundant coastal small cetacean in southern South American waters and probably existing in two isolated Atlantic and…
Status of the cochito, Phocoena sinus, in the Gulf of California
Brownell, R. L. Jr.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
The cochito (Phocoena sinus), the smallest member of its genus, is known from 21 confirmed records from the upper Gulf of California and is probably found only in that area.…
Change in occurrence of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, in Danish waters as illustrated by catch statistics from 1834 to 1970
Andersen, S. H.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
During 24 seasons (November, December and January) from 1834 to 1892, 27 992 harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, were taken in the Strait of Lille Baelt, Denmark with a mean annual…
Distribution and abundance of Dall’s porpoises off Japan
Miyashita, T.; Kasuya, T.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1988)
Results of nine whale sighting cruises in the Japanese coastal waters in 1983 through 1986 and some additional cruises provided following conclusion. Dall's porpoises inhabit waters below 24°C, but the…