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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, it stays close to coastal areas or river estuaries, and as such, is the most familiar porpoise to whale watchers. This porpoise often ventures up rivers, and has been seen hundreds of ...
Spectacled porpoise: circumpolar in cool sub-Antarctic and low Antarctic waters Phocoena phocoena: Harbour porpoise: cooler coastal waters of the North Atlantic, North Pacific and the Black Sea Phocoena sinus: Vaquita: northern area of the Gulf of California, or Sea of Cortez Phocoena spinipinnis: Burmeister's porpoise: coast of South America
Porpoises (/ ˈ p ɔː r p ə s ɪ z /) are small dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae. Although similar in appearance to dolphins, they are more closely related to narwhals and belugas than to the true dolphins. [1] There are eight extant species of porpoise, all among the smallest of the toothed whales.
The last recorded sighting of a white harbor porpoise was in the U.K. in 2016, the post said. Nearly half of the other 35 reported cases have been in the northeast Atlantic. Social media users ...
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.
Hundreds of species of unusual birds are on display throughout Ohio this month as they migrate north for the summer.. Those birds range from annual favorites, like the pine warbler, to unexpected ...
It's official: New Richmond teen breaks Ohio record for largest blue catfish ever caught. Ohio fish records in Hook & Line Division. Bass, hybrid striped: 18.82 pounds. 30 7/8 inches. Muskingum River.
A Dall's porpoise caught in a fishing net. Generally, cetacean bycatch is increasing. Most of the world's cetacean bycatch occurs in gillnet fisheries. [3] The mean annual bycatch in the U.S. alone from 1990 to 1999 was 6,215 marine mammals, with dolphins and porpoises being the primary cetaceans caught in gillnets. [3]