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Porpoise Research Library

Showing entries tagged with "morphology". 124 entries found.
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  • P. spinipinnis 92
  • P. dalli 131
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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

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

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

A new species of Haborophocoena , an early Pliocene phocoenid cetacean from Hokkaido, Japan

Ichishima, Hiroto; Kimura, Masaichi
Marine Mammal Science (2009)

A new species of phocoenid cetacean Haborophocoena, collected from the Early Pliocene Embetsu Formation, in the close vicinity to the site where the holotype of the type species of the…

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  • evolution
  • fossil
  • morphology

Sexual dimorphism of Dall’s porpoise and harbor porpoise skulls

Frandsen, Marie Schou; Galatius, Anders
Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde (2013)

To evaluate and quantify sexual dimorphism of skull shape and assess the ontogenetic background for differences, samples of 134 harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and 85 Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) were…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • Phocoena phocoena
  • comparison
  • morphology
  • skeleton

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

Phocaena phocaenoides

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

Abstract currently unavailable (p. 574-575)

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • behaviour
  • morphology

A rare porpoise of the south Atlantic, Phocaena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)

Hamilton, J. E.
Discovery Reports (1941)

(...) Records have been published of three specimens of Phocaena dioptrica, all from the South Atlantic region. The type was described by Lahille (1912) and was a pregnant and therefore…

  • Phocoena dioptrica
  • morphology
  • skeleton

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