Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises [Proceedings] (1966)
There are many species of cetaceans in the waters around Japan. Some are migratory, but others seem to be permanent residents. The rarities among the small cetaceans caught by Japanese…
There are many species of cetaceans in the waters around Japan. Some are migratory, but others seem to be permanent residents. The rarities among the small cetaceans caught by Japanese…
This paper comprises sight records for nine species and morphometries, color descriptions, and miscellaneous notes on the food and parasites of seven species of small odontocetes observed from West Greenland…
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The widespread belief handed down through the cetacean literature for the past hundred years that the body colour of Neophocaena phocaenoides is black, is refuted by observations and photographs of…
The geographical variation of the colour types of the species indicates three local stocks in the northwestern North Pacific and western Bering Sea (WNP/BS), off the Pacific coast of Japan…
The Chinese finless porpoise of the Changjiang river, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis (PILLERI and GIHR, 1972) presents a taxonomic entity which differs from N. phocaenoides (G. CUVIER, 1829) of south and south-west…
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…
(...) Several studies on the population and distribution of marine mammals were conducted between 1978 and 1981 in the North Pacific Ocean under a United States-Japan cooperative agreement of the…
During 349 hours of sighting surveys conducted from late June to early August 1979 in the northwestern North Pacific Ocean and the southern Bering Sea, 167 schools of Phocoenoides dalli…
The vaquita, Phocoena sinus, is a porpoise in the family Phocoenidae that lives only in the Gulf of California. The external appearance of P. sinus was unknown until 13 fresh…