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Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) is a species of porpoise endemic to the coast of South America. [1] It was first described by Hermann Burmeister , for whom the species is named, in 1865.
Phocoena spinipinnis. Phocoena is a genus of porpoises with four extant species. ... Phocoena spinipinnis: Burmeister's porpoise: coast of South America References
A dissection of three Burmeister's porpoises shows that they consume shrimp and euphausiids (krill). A dissection of a beached Vaquita showed remains of squid and grunts . Nothing is known about the diet of the spectacled porpoise.
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.
Size comparison of an average human and a Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis). Date: 27 May 2007: Source: Own work: Author: Chris_huh: Permission (Reusing this file) GNU Free Documentation License
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders.The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015. [1]
The vaquita is most closely related to Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) and less so to the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica), two species limited to the Southern Hemisphere. Their ancestors are thought to have moved north across the equator more than 2.5 million years ago during a period of cooling in the Pleistocene .
Species Phocoena spinipinnis, Burmeister's porpoise; Superfamily Platanistoidea. Family Iniidae. Genus Inia. Species Inia araguaiaensis; Species Inia geoffrensis. Subspecies Inia geoffrensis geoffrensis, Amazon river dolphin; Subspecies Inia geoffrensis boliviensis, Bolivian river dolphin; Subspecies Inia geoffrensis humboldtiana, Humboldt's ...