Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)
Little is known of the small cetaceans of the Southern Ocean. In view of the enormous amounts of water and little land in this area, records from Tierra del Fuego…
Little is known of the small cetaceans of the Southern Ocean. In view of the enormous amounts of water and little land in this area, records from Tierra del Fuego…
Morphological differentiation in skull shape in small toothed whales is sometimes explained as driven by differences in ontogeny or adaptation to a benthic or pelagic habitat. To test these hypotheses,…
A cranium of Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912, collected at Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, represents the first discovery of the species in the Pacific Ocean, the ten previous records being all…
(...) The Dall porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli (True), occupies a rather restricted range in the northern Pacific. On the American side this extends from the Aleutian Islands to Santa Barbara Channel,…
Highly significant (α = 0.01) differences in analysis of 473 skulls of harbour porpoises indicate separate eastern Pacific, western Atlantic, and eastern Atlantic populations. Including the isolated population in the…
Objectives The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in cetaceans is largely uncharacterized. This study aims to describe the macroscopic, microscopic, biochemical and biomechanical features of the TMJ of two species of the…
The skull and incomplete skeleton of a specimen of Phocoena sinus from the Gulf of California are described and compared with specimens of P. phocoena and P. spinipinnis. The skeleton…
We measured metric and scored non-metric characters of 242 harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) skulls from the North and the Baltic Sea and subdivided them into three geographical areas: The German…
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…
(...) 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…