Systema Naturæ (1758)
(...) Delphinus phocœna 1. Dolphin with a nearly coniform body, a wide back, and nearly blunt (obtuse) rostrum. . . . Lives in the oceans of Europe and the Baltic.…
(...) Delphinus phocœna 1. Dolphin with a nearly coniform body, a wide back, and nearly blunt (obtuse) rostrum. . . . Lives in the oceans of Europe and the Baltic.…
(Phocoenid-related excerpts) (...) NEOMERIS Gray This genus appears to have but one character to distinguish it from Phocaena, namely, the absence of a dorsal fin. I was unable to discover…
(...) In 1893 Dr. R. A. Philippi, Director of the National Museum of Chili, described several new species of porpoises and commented on various South American forms previously known. In…
(...) Once more I am indebted to the Director - Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Dawson - of the Trevandrum Museum for sketches and measurements of certain Cetaceans recently captured on the…
(...) On June 18, 1910, while the guest of the Oriental Whaling Company, Ltd. (Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha), at their station at Aikawahama in the north of Japan, a porpoise…
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Among the collections brought back by Mr. F. R. Wulsin after a year’s stay in China are three skeletons and an entire body of the small porpoise, Meomeris phocaenoides, a…
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(...) Flower (1883), in his search for the trenchant characters he needed to reach a decision about the arrangement of the Delphinidae, saw that the configuration of the pterygoid bones…
This paper is a contribution to the knowledge of the marine and estuarine cetacean fauna of Pakistani waters and it is based on the investigation of our own material collected…