(2011)
Pacific Biodiversity Institute (PBI) initiated a study of the harbor porpoise in the Puget Sound in 2007. One of the early outcomes of this study was to identify an area,…
Unusual mortality events of harbor porpoise strandings in North Carolina, 1997–2009
Hohn, Aleta A.; Rotstein, David S.; Byrd, Barbie L.
Journal of Marine Biology (2013)
A marked increase in the frequency of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded in North Carolina in 2005 was declared as an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). Strandings occurred in January through…
Variation in harbour porpoise activity in response to seismic survey noise
Pirotta, E.; Brookes, K. L.; Graham, I. M.; Thompson, P. M.
Biology Letters (2014)
Animals exposed to anthropogenic disturbance make trade-offs between perceived risk and the cost of leaving disturbed areas. Impact assessments tend to focus on overt behavioural responses leading to displacement, but…
Spectacled porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica, new to the subantarctic Pacific Ocean
Baker, Alan N.
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research (1977)
A cranium of Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912, collected at Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, represents the first discovery of the species in the Pacific Ocean, the ten previous records being all…
Stenurus australis n. sp. (Nematoda: Pseudaliidae) de Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865) (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) de Peru
Sarmiento, L. B.; Tantaleán, M. V.
Publicaciones del Museo de Historia Natural - Serie A Zoologia (1991)
Stenurus australis n. sp. (Nematoda: Pseudaliidae) found in the nasal and cranial sinuses of Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865) is described. The hosts were obtained at the Chimbote, Ancash (09°04'S-78°35'W) and…
First report of infestation by a parasitic copepod (Pennella balaenopterae) in a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Aegean Sea: A case report
Danyer, E.; Tonay, A. M.; Aytemiz, I.; Dede, A.; Yildirim, F.; Gurel, A.
Veterinarni Medicina (2014)
An adult, female harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) was found stranded on the southern Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. Thirteen holes made by copepods were observed on the lateral sides…
Brain-spinal cord ratios in porpoises: Possible correlations with intelligence and ecology
Ridgway, S. H.; Flanigan, N. J.; McCormick, J. G.
Psychonomic Science (1966)
As a rough measure of intelligence, brain weight: cord weight ratios in small delphinids compared favorably with, but were slightly less than , this ratio in man. Not all delphinids…
Habitat preferences and distribution of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena west of Scotland
Booth, C. G.; Embling, C.; Gordon, J.; Calderan, S. V.; Hammond, P. S.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2013)
The west coast of Scotland is comprised of complex coastlines and topography, and a range of physical processes influence its coastal marine environment. The region is host to one of…
Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China
Zhao, Xiujiang; Barlow, Jay; Taylor, Barbara L.; Pitman, Robert L.; Wang, Kexiong; Wei, Zhuo; Stewart, Brent S.; Turvey, Samuel T.; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Reeves, Randall R.; Wang, Ding
Biological Conservation (2008)
The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) is endemic to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China. It is the only freshwater population of porpoises in the…
The Dall porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli (True), of the northern Pacific Ocean
McTaggart-Cowan, I.
Journal of Mammalogy (1944)
(...) The Dall porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli (True), occupies a rather restricted range in the northern Pacific. On the American side this extends from the Aleutian Islands to Santa Barbara Channel,…