Marine Environmental Research (1988)
Persistent organochlorines (PCBs and p,p′-DDE) in the bodies of dalli- and truei-type Dall's porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli) from the Bering Sea and the northwestern North Pacific were used as chemical tracers…
Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, abundance estimation for California, Oregon, and Washington: I. Ship surveys
Barlow, J.
Fishery Bulletin (1988)
The density and total population size of harbor porpoise along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington are estimated from ship surveys using line transect methods. Surveys were completed between…
The peripheral nerve ends in the tongue of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
Behrmann, G.
Aquatic Mammals (1988)
(...) Tongues (Lingua) of dead harbour porpoises are much smaller than those of comparable terrestrial mammals (Boenninghaus, 1903). With the exception of a small area at the tip of the…
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…
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…
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…
Chromosome number of two color types of the Dall’s porpoise
Yabu, H.; Ogi, H.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1986)
(...) Makino (1948) studied chromosomes of a male P. dalli using traditional sectioning of testis tissue. Since it was generally accepted in those days that the two color morphs represent…