Bulletin - United States National Museum (1889)
(Phocoenid-related excerpts) (...) NEOMERIS Gray This genus appears to have but one character to distinguish it from Phocaena, namely, the absence of a dorsal fin. I was unable to discover…
On an Indian dolphin and porpoise
Lydekker, R.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1908)
(...) Once more I am indebted to the Director - Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Dawson - of the Trevandrum Museum for sketches and measurements of certain Cetaceans recently captured on the…
The Bay Porpoise
Scammon, C.M.
The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America (1874)
(...) This peculiar species of Dolphin is the least in size of the entire whale tribe inhabiting the Pacific North American Coast. When fully matured it may attain the length…
The generic name of the finless-backed porpoise
Thomas, O.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1925)
Abstract currently unavailable
The generic name of the finless-backed porpoise, formerly know as Neomeris phocaenoides
Thomas, O.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1922)
Abstract currently unavailable
A contribution to the knowledge of the marine fauna of Kurrachee
Murray, J. A.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1884)
(...) In this paper I shall describe two new species - one a Shark of the genus Lamna, and the other a Cetacean of the family Delphinidae, and of the…
A porpoise chokes on a shark
Orr, R. T.
Journal of Mammalogy (1937)
On March 9, 1937, a harbor porpoise (Phocaena phocoena) that had been found dead the previous day on Rockaway Beach, San Mateo County, California, was brought to the Department of…
A new species of Haborophocoena , an early Pliocene phocoenid cetacean from Hokkaido, Japan
Ichishima, Hiroto; Kimura, Masaichi
Marine Mammal Science (2009)
A new species of phocoenid cetacean Haborophocoena, collected from the Early Pliocene Embetsu Formation, in the close vicinity to the site where the holotype of the type species of the…
Predictions from harbor porpoise habitat association models are confirmed by long-term passive acoustic monitoring
Brookes, Kate L.; Bailey, Helen; Thompson, Paul M.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2013)
Survey based habitat association models provide good spatial coverage, but only a snapshot in time of a species' occurrence in a particular area. A habitat association model for harbor porpoises…
Noise mitigation during pile driving efficiently reduces disturbance of marine mammals
Nehls, Georg; Rose, Armin; Diederichs, Ansgar; Bellmann, Michael; Pehlke, Hendrik
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (2016)
Acoustic monitoring of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena L., 1758) indicated a strongly reduced disturbance by noise emitted by pile driving for offshore wind turbine foundations insulated by a big bubble…