Beyond the Golden Gate Research Symposium (2011)
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Contamination status of POPs and BFRs and relationship with parasitic infection in finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) from Seto Inland Sea and Omura Bay, Japan
Isobe, Tomohiko; Oshihoi, Tomoko; Hamada, Hiroki; Nakayama, Kei; Yamada, Tadasu K.; Tajima, Yuko; Amano, Masao; Tanabe, Shinsuke
Marine Pollution Bulletin (2011)
Contamination status of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in blubber of finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) stranded along the coasts of Seto Inland Sea and Omura Bay…
Analysis of global and local population stratification of finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides in Chinese waters
Li, Xiang; Liu, Yingying; Tzika, Athanasia C.; Zhu, Qian; Van Doninck, Karine; Milinkovitch, Michel C.
Marine Biology (2011)
The existence of three distinct populations is widely accepted for the finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in Chinese waters: the Yellow Sea, Yangtze River, and South China Sea populations. Here, we…
Geographic variation of skeletal ontogeny and skull shape in the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Galatius, A.; Gol’din, P. E.
Canadian Journal of Zoology (2011)
All extant porpoise species show paedomorphic skeletal traits. These traits are hypothesized to be connected with rapid growth to reproductive size and could thus show geographic variation according to ecological…
Revision of the taxonomy of finless porpoises (genus Neophocaena): the existence of two species
Jefferson, Thomas A.; Wang, John Y.
Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology (2011)
Due to extensive morphological variation and inadequately-sampled or poorly-designed studies, the taxonomy of the finless porpoises (genus Neophocaena) has been controversial for some time. An uneasy stability with the arrangement…
First records of anomalously white harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the Pacific ocean
Keener, William; Szczepaniak, Isidore; Ü, Adam; Webber, Marc; Stern, Jonathan
Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology (2011)
Anomalously white cetaceans are rarely seen, and only five records of white harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are found in the literature. We provide an updated list of those records, and…
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and wind farms: a case study in the Dutch North Sea
Scheidat, Meike; Tougaard, Jakob; Brasseur, Sophie; Carstensen, Jacob; van Polanen Petel, Tamara; Teilmann, Jonas; Reijnders, Peter
Environmental Research Letters (2011)
The rapid increase in development of offshore wind energy in European waters has raised concern for the possible environmental impacts of wind farms. We studied whether harbour porpoise occurrence has…
Auditory temporal resolution and evoked responses to pulsed sounds for the Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis)
Mooney, T. Aran; Li, Songhai; Ketten, Darlene R.; Wang, Kexiong; Wang, Ding
J Comp Physiol A (2011)
Temporal cues are important for some forms of auditory processing, such as echolocation. Among odontocetes (toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises), it has been suggested that porpoises may have temporal processing…
Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function
McKenna, Megan F.; Cranford, Ted W.; Berta, Annalisa; Pyenson, Nicholas D.
Marine Mammal Science (2011)
Toothed whales (crown Odontoceti) are unique among mammals in their ability to echolocate underwater, using specialized tissue structures. The melon, a structure composed of fat and connective tissue, is an…
Feeding habits and consumption by finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) in the Yellow Sea
Park, Kyum-Joon; An, Yong-Rock; Lee, Young-Ran; Park, Ji-Eun; Moon, Dae-Yeon; Choi, Seok-Gwan
Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2011)
We investigated the stomach contents of finless porpoises collected in the Yellow Sea. Prey organisms in the stomachs of 109 finless porpoises were identified as 11 species of fish, 8…