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    The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest species of cetacean. As its name implies...
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    (Dall's porpoise and spectacled porpoise), covering all water temperatures from tropical (Sea of Cortez, vaquita) to polar (Greenland, harbour porpoise). Porpoises...
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    The vaquita (/vəˈkiːtə/ və-KEE-tə; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern end of the Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico...
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    The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait...
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    the 19th century, local fishermen were also involved in harbour porpoise hunting. Harbor porpoises winter in Danish waterways, and fishermen would wait in...
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    by-catch) is the accidental capture of non-target cetaceans such as dolphins, porpoises, and whales by commercial fisheries. Bycatch can be caused by entanglement...
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  • the North East Atlantic, including dolphins, whales and harbour porpoises. The harbour porpoise is the most common small cetacean species in the North...
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    Neophocaena is a genus of porpoise native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, as well as the freshwater habitats of the Yangtze River basin in China. They...
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    spectacled porpoises in the Pliocene era. These three species diverged from the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and Dall’s porpoise ( Phocoenoides...
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  • phocoena - Atlantic harbour porpoise NE, ssp. vomerina - Eastern Pacific harbour porpoise NE, ssp. relicta - Black Sea harbour porpoise EN, unnamed ssp....
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    Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) is a species of porpoise endemic to the North Pacific. It is the largest of porpoises and the only member of the...
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    June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012. Ryan, Conor (2008). "Attack on Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena (L. 1758) by Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus...
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    hypothesized that harbour porpoises eat large amounts of food, about 10% of their own body mass. Another theory suggests that harbour porpoises require relatively...
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  • former ferry harbour and indoor tanks and laboratories. The main focus of research at the station was the bioacoustics of harbour porpoises and involved...
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    The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) is one of eight porpoise species. The species ranges throughout most of the Indian Ocean,...
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    Commerson's dolphin Common dolphin False killer whale Finless porpoise Gray whale Harbour porpoise Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin Irrawaddy dolphin Long-finned...
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    harbor porpoise in the Baltic Sea by documenting illegal fishing nets and reporting them to the local authorities. Although the harbour porpoise species...
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    The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) is a species of toothed whale in the family Phocoenidae, the porpoise family. It is endemic...
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    itself could breed remains unknown. Results of a genetic study reveal that porpoises and monodontids are closely related, forming a separate clade which diverged...
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    disappeared from the Mediterranean during historic times (notably the harbour porpoise and the grey whale), and it is still difficult to determine the exact...
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    Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) is a species of porpoise endemic to the coast of South America. It was first described by Hermann Burmeister...
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    and porpoises such as common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, Pacific white-sided dolphins, dusky dolphins, harbour porpoises and Dall's porpoises. While...
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    of birds and a number of marine mammals including the grey seal and harbour porpoise. Settlements on Amrum have been traced back to the Neolithic period...
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  • (IUCN) has assessed the conservation status of the Black Sea stock of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) that touches six countries, and COSEWIC, which...
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    Phocoena (category Porpoises)
    Phocoena is a genus of porpoises with four extant species. "Phocoena Cuvier 1816 (porpoise) Osteichthyes - Delphinoidea - Phocoenidae PaleoDB taxon number:...
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    Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii), the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), and Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)–than to those of other deep-diving...
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    North Pacific Ocean. Lacking a dorsal fin, and appearing superficially porpoise-like, it is one of the two species of right whale dolphin. The northern...
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    majority of these are harbour seals, but patients can include sea otters, elephant seals, Steller sea lions, harbour porpoises, and common dolphins. The...
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    The East Asian finless porpoise (Neophocaena sunameri) is a species of porpoise native to the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and the seas around Japan. The...
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    Stewart, P. J.; Clapham, J.; Powell, J. A. (2002). Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: A guide to their...
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