Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
The finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, is distributed in the form of a narrow band along the coast line of tropical and temperate Asia and in the Yangtze river.The differences of…
Geographical variations of skull among the populations of Neophocaena in Chinese waters
Gao, Anli; Zhou, Kaiya
Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
Geographical variations of skull among the Yangtze, Yellow Sea and South China Sea populations of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters were studied using 42 skull measurements based…
Geographical variations of postcranial skeleton among populations of Neophocaena in Chinese waters
Gao, Anli; Zhou, Kaiya
Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
Geographical variations of postcranial skeleton among the Yangtze, Yellow Sea and South China Sea populations of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters were studied with t-test, covariance analysis…
Phylogenetic relationships among the true porpoises (Cetacea: Phocoenidae)
Rosel, P; Haygood, M; Perrin, W
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (1995)
Portions of the cytochrome b gene and control region of the mitochondrial DNA molecule were sequenced to investigate systematic relationships among the six extant species of true porpoises, (Cetacea: Phocoenidae).…
Investigations on cetacean sonar XI: Intrinsic comparison of the wave shapes of some members of the Phocoenidae family
Kamminga, C.; Cohen Stuart, A.; Silber, G. K.
Aquatic Mammals (1996)
A comparison of the acoustic waveforms of three different species, Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena sinus and Neophocaena phocaenoides of the sub-family Phocoeninae is made with the species Phocoenoides dalli of the…
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…
Observations of parturition and related behaviors of finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in Enoshima Aquarium, Japan
Yang, Jian; Zhang, Xian-Feng; Hori, Yukiko; Fujimoto, Asami
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica (1998)
A pregnant finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), whose body length (BL) was 1.63 m and body weight (BW) was 75.8 kg, gave birth to a female calf successfully in Enoshima Aquarium,…
Family Phocoenidae Gray, 1825
Rice, D.W.
Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution (1998)
(page 121) (...) Miller (1925) and Kellogg (1928) included the true porpoises in the family Delphinidae and did not even grant them subfamily status. However, Slijper (1936) and Fraser and…
Finless porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829)
Kasuya, T.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
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Effects of water development on river cetaceans in China
Liu, Renjun; Wang, Ding
Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Cetaceans in Asia (2000)
Water development projects, including dams, embankments, and ship locks, have had extensive deleterious effects on two species of river cetacean in China: the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) and the Yangtze population…