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…
Current understanding of the status of small cetacean populations in the Black Sea
Smith, T. D.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
A fishery using guns and nets for the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, Azov dolphin, Phocoena phocoena, and bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, in the Black and Azov Seas has been pursued…
Genetic variability and differentiation in the toothed whales
Shimura, E.; Numachi, K.-I.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1987)
Genetic variability and differentiation of three families containing 12 species of toothed whales mainly from the sea around Japan have been examined by starch-gel electrophoresis at 19 genetic loci encoding…
Report on the small cetaceans stranded on the coasts of Tierra del Fuego
Goodall, R. N. P.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1978)
Little work has been done on the smaller cetaceans of Tierra del Fuego. Data on strandings and new specimens for the following 14 species is presented: Lagenorhynchus australis, Cephalorhynchus commersonii,…
Consideration of distribution and migration of toothed whales off the Pacific coast of Japan based upon aerial sighting record
Kasuya, T.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1971)
The seasonal and annual fluctuation of the sperm whale, Baird's beaked whale, killer whale, the globicephalids, and the dolphins and porpoises in the past 11 years are discussed. The sperm…
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: A guide to their identification
Leatherwood, S.; Reeves, R. R.; Perrin, W. F.; Evans, W. E.
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…
Review of small cetaceans: Distribution, behaviour, migration and threats
Culik, Boris
(2004)
This report summarises the available knowledge on odontocete (toothed whale) distribution, behaviour, migration and threats and was compiled for the Bonn Secretariat of CMS.
Food of the Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli, and northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, off California and Washington; with appendices on size and food of Dall’s porpoise from Alaskan waters
Kajimura, H.; Fiscus, C. H.; Stroud, R. K.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS F/NWC-2 (1980)
The food of the Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, and Dali's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli -- collected off California and Washington in 1958-72 -- is compared with food of the northern…
Cetacean abundance estimates in US northwestern Atlantic Ocean waters from summer 2011 line transect survey
Palka, D.
NEFSC Reference Document 12-29 (2012)
As part of the AMAPPS (Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species) project, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) of NOAA Fisheries Service conducted…
Sexual dimorphism and development of external features in Dall’s porpoise Phocoenoides dalli
Jefferson, T. A.
Fishery Bulletin (1990)
Examination of 95 Dall's porpoise specimens incidentally caught in gill nets, and 4 collected as beach strandings, indicate significant sexual dimorphism and developmental variation in several aspects of external morphology…