Marine Biodiversity Records (2019)
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is listed under the Annex II of the European Habitats Directive (Directive 92/43/CEE) and Member States are required to designate special areas of conservation to protect…
Records of anomalously white harbour porpoises and atypical pigmented short-beaked common dolphin in the Georgian Black Sea waters
Kopaliani, Natia; Gurielidze, Zurab; Ninua, Levan
Journal of the Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment (2017)
In Georgian territorial waters of the Black Sea, three leucistic harbour porpoises and one piebald short beaked common dolphin were spotted during the years 2012-2016. All images of the specimens…
Harbor porpoises of San Francisco Bay
Stern, J.; Keener, W.; Szczepaniak, I.; Webber, M.
Beyond the Golden Gate Research Symposium (2011)
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White Dall’s porpoise sighted in the north Pacific
Joyce, Gerald G.; Rosapepe, John V.; Ogasawara, Junroku
Fishery Bulletin (1982)
(...) 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…
A review of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in Irish waters
Rogan, E.; Berrow, S. D.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1996)
This paper reviews and summarises published and unpublished information on harbour porpoises in Irish waters and presents results of recent research. Harbour porpoises have been recorded from all Irish coasts…
First records of anomalously white harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Turkish seas with a global review
Tonay, Arda M.; Bilgin, Sabri; Dede, Ayhan; Akkaya, Aylin; Yeşilçiçek, Tuncay; Köse, Özay; Ceylan, Yusuf
Hystrix - The Italian Journal of Mammalogy (2012)
Three anomalously white harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were reported from Turkish Seas. One of them was bycaught on 19 June 2011 in bottom gill nets off the eastern coast of…
First records of anomalously white harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the Pacific ocean
Keener, William; Szczepaniak, Isidore; Ü, Adam; Webber, Marc; Stern, Jonathan
Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology (2011)
Anomalously white cetaceans are rarely seen, and only five records of white harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are found in the literature. We provide an updated list of those records, and…
Rare sighting of an anomalously white harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Moray Firth, north-east Scotland
Robinson, Kevin P.; Haskins, Gary N.
Mar. Biodivers. Rec. (2013)
This paper describes a rare sighting of an anomalously white harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the coastal waters of the outer Moray Firth in north-east Scotland. The recording provides the…