Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (1999)
Limited monitoring of 30 fishing ports on the central and northern Peruvian coast, from 03º29’S to 14º10’S, in the period 1995-99, yielded evidence of small cetacean exploitation in 25 ports…
Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Clapham, P. J.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
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A review of virus infections of cetaceans and the potential impact of morbilliviruses, poxviruses and papillomaviruses on host population dynamics
Van Bressem, M. F.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Raga, J. A.
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (1999)
Viruses belonging to 9 families have been detected in cetaceans. We critically review the clinical features, pathology and epidemiology of the diseases they cause. Cetacean morbillivirus (family Paramyxoviridae) induces a…
Serological evidence of morbillivirus infection in small cetaceans from the Southeast Pacific
Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Van Waerebeek, Koen; Fleming, Martin; Barrett, Thomas
Veterinary Microbiology (1998)
The presence of morbillivirus-specific serum antibodies was examined by an indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (iELISA) and virus neutralization tests in serum samples from 30 dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus), 8…
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…
Mortality of dolphins and porpoises in coastal fisheries off Peru and southern Ecuador in 1994
Van Waerebeek, Koen; Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Félix, Fernando; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; García-Godos, Aquiles; Chávez-Lisambart, Laura; Ontón, Karina; Montes, David; Bello, Ruth
Biological Conservation (1997)
Of 722 cetaceans captured mostly in multi-filament gillnets and landed at Cerro Azul, central Peru, in 87 days during January–August 1994, 82.7% were dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus, 12.6% Burmeister's porpoise…
Epidemiology of poxvirus in small cetaceans from the eastern South Pacific
Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Van Waerebeek, Koen
Marine Mammal Sci (1996)
The prevalence of ‘tattoo’ skin lesions, characteristic of poxvirus infection, was examined in 339 small cetaceans captured in gillnet fisheries off coastal Peru: 196 Lagenorhynchus obscurus (34.7%, CI 29.0%–41.8%), 54…
Genital and lingual warts in small cetaceans from coastal Peru
Van Bressem, M. F.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Piérard, G. E.; Desaintes, C.
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (1996)
We report on genital warts in dusky dolphins Lagenorhynchus obscurus, long-snouted common dolphins Delphinus capensis, bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus and Burmeister's porpoises Phocoena spinipinnis caught in fisheries off central Peru.…
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).…
Aspects of the biology of Burmeister’s porpoise from Peru
Reyes, J.C.; van Waerebeek, K
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis), one of the most common small cetaceans in Peruvian waters, suffers the second highest fishing mortality. Biological data obtained from porpoises caught in gillnets off Peru…