Ambio (2018)
Stomach contents of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) collected in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2013 were inspected for the presence of plastic and other man-made litter. In 654 stomach samples…
Occurrence of threatened cetacean species and its conservation strategy along Ganjam coast, Odisha
Behera, S. K.; Mohanta, R.; Mishra, S. S.
International Journal of Zoology Studies (2018)
Cetaceans are an important component of marine biodiversity, as apex predators, cetacean abundance and distribution are key indicators of environmental status, such as food web integrity. Five species of cetacean…
Strandings of cetaceans in Belgium from 1995 to 2017
Haelters, J.; Kerckhof, F.; Jauniaux, T.
Lutra (2018)
It is a tradition that regular overviews are published of strandings of cetaceans. The last overviews for Belgium covered the period 1975 to 1989 and 1990 to 1994. This overview…
Cetacean stranding records along the Danish coastline: Records for the period 2008-2017 and a comparative review
Kinze, C. C.; Thøstesen, C. B.; Olsen, M. T.
Lutra (2018)
For the period 2008-2017, finds of stranded cetaceans along the Danish coastline are listed and reviewed in comparison to the preceding 40-year period (1968-2007). The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was…
A preliminary study on diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise using next‐generation sequencing techniques
Yang, Jiwei; Wan, Xiaoling; Zeng, Xianyuan; Zheng, Jinsong; Han, Yi; Fan, Fei; Hao, Yujiang; Wang, Kexiong; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Ding
Marine Mammal Science (2019)
...the diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise has been poorly known for a long time because of the lack of studies of stomach contents. Until now, only one study (Chen…
Characterization of a novel rhabdovirus isolated from a stranded harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Emelianchik, Alexandra; Rodrigues, Thaís C. S.; Subramaniam, Kuttichantran; Nielsen, Ole; Burek-Huntington, Kathy A.; Rotstein, David; Popov, Vsevolod L.; Stone, David; Waltzek, Thomas B.
Virus Research (2019)
An adult male harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) stranded off the coast of Alaska displaying poor body condition, scattered mild ulcerative dermatitis, and necrotizing balanoposthitis. Necropsy findings included severe verminous panniculitis,…
Cytokine expression and lymphocyte proliferative capacity in diseased harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) – Biomarkers for health assessment in wildlife cetaceans
Lehnert, Kristina; Siebert, Ursula; Reißmann, Kristina; Bruhn, Regina; McLachlan, Michael S.; Müller, Gundi; van Elk, Cornelis E.; Ciurkiewicz, Malgorzata; Baumgärtner, Wolfgang; Beineke, Andreas
Environmental Pollution (2019)
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the North and Baltic Seas are exposed to anthropogenic influences including acoustic stress and environmental contaminants. In order to evaluate immune responses in healthy and…
Heavy metals in bones from harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena from the western Black Sea coast
Evtimova, Violeta; Parvanov, Dimitar; Grozdanov, Atanas; Tserkova, Feriha; Zlatkov, Boyan; Vergilov, Vladislav; Sivilov, Ognyan; Yordanov, Stoyan; Delov, Ventseslav
ZooNotes (2019)
During the last few years, the Western Black Sea coast has documented increase in the number of stranded marine mammals, particularly the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). This species is a…
Clinical, pathological, and laboratory diagnoses of diseases of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), live stranded on the Dutch and adjacent coasts from 2003 to 2016
van Elk, Cornelis E.; van de Bildt, Marco W. G.; van Run, Peter R. W. A.; Bunskoek, Paulien; Meerbeek, Jolanda; Foster, Geoffrey; Osterhaus, Albert D. M. E.; Kuiken, Thijs
Veterinary Research (2019)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the North Sea live in an environment heavily impacted by humans, the consequences of which are a concern for their health. Autopsies carried out on…
First record of Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Weir, Caroline R.; Rutherford, Susan
Marine Biodiversity Records (2019)
The Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis is a small, poorly-studied, and Near Threatened cetacean species, with a limited geographic range comprising the Pacific and Atlantic coastal temperate waters of five South…