Aquatic Mammals (2012)
For many toothed whales, two predominant and multifunctional spatial positions occur between a mother/calf pair after birth: (1) the echelon position and (2) the infant position. Other nonpredominant positions also…
The rescue, rehabilitation, and release of a stranded finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides sunameri) at Bohai Bay of China
Yu, Jinhai; Sun, Yanming; Xia, Zhaofei
Aquatic Mammals (2009)
A stranded female west Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides sunameri) was found in the shallows of Bohai Bay, China, on 30 March 2008. It was moderately dehydrated. After transportation to…
Development, sexual dimorphism, and individual variation in the skeleton of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in the coastal waters of western Kyushu, Japan
Yoshida, Hideyoshi; Shirakihara, Miki; Takemura, Akira; Shirakihara, Kunio
Marine Mammal Sci (1994)
Development, sexual dimorphism, and individual variation were examined in the skeleton of the finless porpoise in the coastal waters of western Kyushu, Japan. Skulls ceased growing by 4 yr. Postcranial…
Age, growth, and reproduction of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in the coastal waters of western Kyushu, Japan
Shirakihara, Miki; Takemura, Akira; Shirakihara, Kunio
Marine Mammal Sci (1993)
In the coastal waters of western Kyushu, Japan, a total of 97 incidentally taken or stranded finless porpoises, Neophocaena phocaenoides, was collected for studying age, growth and reproduction. An additional…
Records of the finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in the waters adjacent to Kanmon Pass, Japan
Shirakihara, Miki; Shirakihara, Kunio; Takemura, Akira
Marine Mammal Sci (1992)
(...) The finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) is found in the Inland Sea of Japan (Kasuya and Kureha 1979), but has not previously been confirmed to occur in the southwestern part…
Evolution, taxonomy and antitropical distributions of the porpoises (Phocoenidae, Mammalia)
Barnes, Lawrence G.
Marine Mammal Sci (1985)
True porpoises are a morphologically distinctive and evolutionarily old group of odontocete cetaceans classified as the family Phocoenidae. They are distinct from members of the family Delphinidae, with which they…
Target discrimination by an echolocating finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides
Nakahara, Fumio; Takemura, Akira; Koido, Takashi; Hiruda, Hisoka
Marine Mammal Sci (1997)
The ability of a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) to discriminate the material and size of a target by echolocation was investigated. The porpoise was required to choose a standard target…
Population genetic structure of finless porpoises, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters, inferred from mitochondrial control region sequences
Yang, Guang; Ren, Wenhua; Zhou, Kaiya; Liu, Shan; Ji, Guoqing; Yan, Jib; Wang, Limin
Marine Mammal Sci (2002)
Seven hundred and twenty base pairs (bp) of the mitochondrial control region from 73 finless porpoises, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters were sequenced. Thirteen variable sites were determined and 17…
Yangtze finless porpoises along the main channel of Poyang Lake, China: Implications for conservation
Dong, Lijun; Wang, Ding; Wang, Kexiong; li, Songhai; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Shiyong; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Kimura, Satoko
Mar Mam Sci (2014)
Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and flows into the Yangtze River. It is a traditional habitat for the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise, which has not been…
Seasonal changes in the local distribution of Yangtze finless porpoises related to fish presence
Kimura, Satoko; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Li, Songhai; Dong, Lijun; Wang, Kexiong; Wang, Ding; Arai, Nobuaki
Marine Mammal Science (2011)
The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is an endangered freshwater porpoise subspecies unique to the Yangtze River basin. Seasonal variations in local distribution of the animal, as well as…