Marine Mammal Sci (1987)
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…
Molecular analyses of the truei and dalli morphotypes of Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
Escorza-Treviño, S.; Pastene, L. A.; Dizon, A. E.
Journal of Mammalogy (2004)
The taxonomic status of the 2 morphologically distinct forms of Dall's porpoises, Phocoenoides dalli (dalli- and truei-type) remains unresolved. To address this uncertainty, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences were used to…
Geographic variation and sexual dimorphism in the skull of Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli
Amano, Masao; Miyazaki, Nobuyuki
Marine Mammal Sci (1992)
Two hundred and eighty-nine skulls of Dall's porpoises from the North Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea were investigated morphometrically. A clear pattern of geographic…
Differences in skull size of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea), in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea: evidence for different morphotypes and populations
Goldin, P. E.; Vishnyakova, K. A.
Vestnik Zoologii (2015)
There are two porpoise stocks in the northern Black Sea: the north-western (Odessa Gulf) and northeastern (Crimean and Caucasian waters); in addition, another stock is in the Sea of Azov.…