NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular 444 (1982)
This field guide is designed to permit observers to identify the cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) they see in the waters of the eastern North Pacific, including the Gulf of…
Status of the cochito, Phocoena sinus, in the Gulf of California
Brownell, R. L. Jr.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
The cochito (Phocoena sinus), the smallest member of its genus, is known from 21 confirmed records from the upper Gulf of California and is probably found only in that area.…
A review of human impact on small cetaceans
Northridge, S.; Pilleri, G.
Investigations on Cetacea (1986)
(...) This document attempts to gather together as much information as is available on the extent of current killings of small cetaceans throughout the world, and also to highlight some…
Investigations on the osteology and the functional morphology of the flipper of whales and dolphins (Cetacea)
Benke, H.
Investigations on Cetacea (1993)
Of the 79 recent species of cetaceans 51 have been examined relative to the osteology of the flipper and the scapula and, in addition to this, video-recordings of 13 different…
Observations on Pacific cetaceans of Californian and Mexican waters
Norris, K. S.; Prescott, J. H.
University of California Publications in Zoology (1961)
(...) For five years we have systematically gathered information of every available kind related to these animals. Fifteen species have been observed in sufficient detail to be considered here. These…
Vaquita Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958
Vidal, O.; Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Findley, L. T.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
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Listening to echolocation clicks with PODs
Tregenza, Nick; Dawson, Steve; Rayment, Will; Verfuss, Ursula
Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing (2016)
Monitoring echolocation using SAMs—static acoustic monitors—such as T-PODs or, more recently, C-PODs—has provided a wealth of information on the fine-scale distribution and activity of dolphins, porpoises and other toothed whales.…
Endangered species, ecosystem integrity, and human livelihoods
Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio; López-Sagástegui, Catalina; Moreno-Báez, Marcia; Mascareñas-Osorio, Ismael; Jiménez-Esquivel, Victoria; Johnson, Andrew Frederick; Erisman, Brad
Conservation Letters (2016)
If efforts to conserve endangered species lack long-term visions and neglect the human dimensions, conservation success will be questionable. Exclusion of stakeholders in decisions can lead to mistrust and polarization…
Extinction is imminent for Mexico’s endemic porpoise unless fishery bycatch is eliminated
Taylor, Barbara L.; Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo; Moore, Jeffrey; Jaramillo-Legorreta, Armando; Ver Hoef, Jay M.; Cardenas-Hinojosa, Gustavo; Nieto-Garcia, Edwyna; Barlow, Jay; Gerrodette, Tim; Tregenza, Nicholas; Thomas, Len; Hammond, Philip S.
Conservation Letters (2016)
The number of Mexico's endemic porpoise, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), is collapsing primarily due to bycatch in illegal gillnets set for totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), an endangered fish whose swim bladders…
Eighth Meeting of the Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la Vaquita
CIRVA
(2017)
The Dire Status of the Vaquita Has Worsened Analysis of the 2016 Acoustic Monitoring Program data has shown that almost half of the remaining vaquita population was lost between 2015…