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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.
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.
Aliama desmarestii Gray, 1864; Aliama indica Gray, 1865; Choneziphius indicus (Van Beneden, 1863); Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister, 1865; Delphinus desmaresti ...
Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Carwardine, 1995. ISBN 0-7513-2781-6; More skull characters of the beaked whale Indopacetus pacificus and comparative measurements of austral relatives J.C. Moore 1972. Field Zoology. Vol 62 pp 1–19. Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys J.C. Moore 1968 ...
A researcher fires a biopsy dart at an orca.The dart will remove a small piece of the whale's skin and bounce harmlessly off the animal. Cetology (from Greek κῆτος, kētos, "whale"; and -λογία, -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific ...
As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates.
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No subspecies of the southern bottlenose whale are named (Mead 1989). A mtDNA study of two southern bottlenose whales from different regions of New Zealand was conducted and found that mtDNA differed 4.13%, which is higher than the interspecific variation of 2% found in other beaked whales (Dalebout et al., 1998).