Marine Mammal Sci (1994)
(...) Little data exists on the swimming movements of dolphins and whales. The earliest record of cetacean swimming kinematics came from Parry (1949), who observed the swimming motions of a…
Paedomorphic ossification in porpoises with an emphasis on the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)
Mellor, Liliana; Cooper, Lisa Noelle; Torre, Jorge; Brownell, Robert L.
Aquatic Mammals (2009)
Heterochrony, the change in timing of developmental processes, is thought to be a key process shaping the numerous limb morphologies of tetrapods. Through a delayed offset in digit development, all…
Geographic variation in external morphology of Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli
Amano, M.; Miyazaki, N.
Aquatic Mammals (1996)
We examined geographic variation in external measurements of Dall’s porpoises, using 269 sexually mature specimens from throughout their range, excluding coastal waters off North America and the northern Okhotsk Sea.…
Growth and reproduction of the finless porpoise in southern China
Jefferson, T. A.; Robertson, K. M.; Wang, J. Y.
The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (2002)
We studied the growth and reproduction of finless porpoises in southern China, based on 86 specimens collected as strandings or fisheries bycatches in Hong Kong, southern Fujian Province, and Taiwan.…
Neophocaena phocaenoides
Jefferson, T.A.; Hung, S.K.
Mammalian Species (2004)
(...) Neophocaena phocaenoides is the only member of the family Phocoenidae without a dorsal fin (Fig. I ). In its place is a low, geographically-variable dorsal ridge (sometimes inappropriately called…
Geographical variations of postcranial skeleton among populations of Neophocaena in Chinese waters
Gao, Anli; Zhou, Kaiya
Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
Geographical variations of postcranial skeleton among the Yangtze, Yellow Sea and South China Sea populations of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters were studied with t-test, covariance analysis…
Geographical variations of skull among the populations of Neophocaena in Chinese waters
Gao, Anli; Zhou, Kaiya
Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
Geographical variations of skull among the Yangtze, Yellow Sea and South China Sea populations of the finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, in Chinese waters were studied using 42 skull measurements based…
Geographical variation of external measurements and three subspecies of Neophocaena phocaenoides in Chinese waters
Gao, Anli; Zhou, Kaiya
Acta Theriologica Sinica (1995)
The finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides, is distributed in the form of a narrow band along the coast line of tropical and temperate Asia and in the Yangtze river.The differences of…
Notes on the biology of the Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis, off southern South America
Goodall, R. Natalie P.; Norris, Kenneth S.; Harris, Guillermo; Oporto, Jorge A.; Castello, Hugo P.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Published and new fresh and museum specimens of Burmeister's porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis, collected prior to the recent research in Peru, Chile and Argentina, are listed and described. Distribution is from…
Phocoena dioptrica
Brownell, Robert L.
Mammalian Species (1975)
(...) The original description of the holotype of P. dioptrica was based on an unique and distinctive color pattern. The dorsal surface and upper lateral surface to just above the'…