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Porpoise Research Library

Showing entries tagged with "morphology". 124 entries found.
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  • P. spinipinnis 92
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Notice of a new species of porpoise (Phocaena tuberculifera) inhabiting the mouth of the Thames

Gray, J.E.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1865)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • capture
  • comparison
  • morphology

The Bay Porpoise

Scammon, C.M.
The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America (1874)

(...) This peculiar species of Dolphin is the least in size of the entire whale tribe inhabiting the Pacific North American Coast. When fully matured it may attain the length…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • behaviour
  • coloration
  • morphology
  • physiology

A contribution to the knowledge of the marine fauna of Kurrachee

Murray, J. A.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1884)

(...) In this paper I shall describe two new species - one a Shark of the genus Lamna, and the other a Cetacean of the family Delphinidae, and of the…

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • morphology
  • physiology

On a new species of porpoise, Phocaena dalli, from Alaska

True, F.W.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum (1885)

(...) I am enabled to add a new species, through the kindness of Mr. William H. Dall, who has placed at my disposal his notes upon and drawings of two…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • coloration
  • comparison
  • discovery
  • morphology

Phocaena phocaenoides

Blanford, W.T.
The Fauna of British India: Mammalia (1888)

Abstract currently unavailable (p. 574-575)

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • behaviour
  • morphology

Contributions to the natural history of the cetaceans, a review of the family Delphinidae

True, F. W.
Bulletin - United States National Museum (1889)

(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…

  • Phocoena spinipinnis
  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • Phocoena phocoena
  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • Neophocaena asiaeorientalis
  • classification
  • morphology

On an Indian dolphin and porpoise

Lydekker, R.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1908)

(...) 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…

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • classification
  • coloration
  • dolphin
  • morphology

Guide to the whales, porpoises and dolphins (Order Cetacea) exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)

Harmer, S. F.
(1909)

Porpoise. The Porpoise [Phocaena communis, or P. phocaena) is the smallest and most common of the Cetaceans found in the seas around the British Isles, and it also frequents the…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • Neophocaena asiaeorientalis
  • bottlenose dolphin
  • capture
  • distribution
  • dolphin
  • history
  • killer whale
  • life history
  • morphology
  • tubercles
  • whale

A new porpoise from Japan

Andrews, R. C.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (1911)

(...) 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…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • classification
  • coloration
  • morphology
  • skeleton

Nota preliminar sobre una nueva especie de marsopa del río de la Plata (Phocaena dioptrica)

Lahille, Fernando
Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (1912)

(...) La inspección de los dientes del animal, dientes muy pequeños, comprimidos y espatulados, me demostró que el delfín pertenecía al género Phocaena. Como por otro lado, los ojos se…

  • Phocoena dioptrica
  • coloration
  • discovery
  • morphology

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