Discovery Reports (1941)
(...) Records have been published of three specimens of Phocaena dioptrica, all from the South Atlantic region. The type was described by Lahille (1912) and was a pregnant and therefore…
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…
New record of the spectacle porpoise
Pagnoni, Gustavo; Saba, Sergio
Marine Mammal Sci (1989)
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A porpoise, Australophocaena dioptrica, previously identified as Phocoena spinipinnis, from Heard Island
Brownell, Robert L.; Heyning, John E.; Perrin, William F.
Marine Mammal Sci (1989)
(...) Guiler, Burton and Gales (1987) reported a cranium (Tasmanian Museum No. A1411) they identified as belonging to Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865) from Heard Island (53°S 73°30’E). They…
Phocoena dioptrica
Brownell, Robert L.
Mammalian Species (1975)
(...) The original description of the holotype of P. dioptrica was based on an unique and distinctive color pattern. The dorsal surface and upper lateral surface to just above the'…
On the biology of the spectacled porpoise, Australophocaena dioptrica
Goodall, R.N.P.; Schiavini, A.C.M.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Published descriptions of the biology of the spectacled porpoise, Australophocaena dioptrica, are reviewed and compared to new material collected in Tierra del Fuego and Chubut, Argentina. Although over 173 cranial…
Northernmost records of the spectacled porpoise, Layard’s beaked whale, Commerson’s dolphin and Peale’s dolphin in the southwestern Atlantic ocean
Pinedo, Maria C.; Barreto, Andre S.; Lammardo, Mauricio P.; Andrade, Ana L. V.; Geracitano, Laura
Aquatic Mammals (2002)
The northernmost records of four cold-water cetacean species in the southwestern Atlantic are presented: the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica), Layard's beaked whale (Mesoplodon layardii), Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii), and Peale's…
Osteological variation in the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
Perrin, William F.; Goodall, R. Natalie P.; Cozzuol, Mario A.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2000)
Cranial and post-cranial variation is described for a large series of specimens of spectacled porpoise from Argentina and compared with that for specimens from other areas of the Southern Hemisphere.…
First mitochondrial DNA analysis of the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Pimper, Lida Elena; Goodall, Rae Natalie Prosser; Remis, María Isabel
Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde (2012)
The spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica, Lahille, 1912)is one of the cetacean species about which least is known. Most information on the biology and ecology of this species has been obtained…
The spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) in Antarctic waters
SEKIGUCHI, KEIKO; OLAVARRÍA, CARLOS; MORSE, LAURA; OLSON, PAULA; ENSOR, PAUL; MATSUOKA, KOJI; PITMAN, ROBERT; FINDLAY, KEN; GORTER, UKO
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2006)
Most knowledge on the biology and ecology of the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) has been obtained from stranded specimens, with less than fifteen confirmed sightings in the sea. Published photographs…