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    distinct subspecies, Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli dalli) and True's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli truei). Dall's porpoises can be easily distinguished...
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    recorded instance of a Dall's taken for an aquarium was in 1956 captured off Catalina Island in southern California. Dall's porpoises consistently failed...
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  • a park in British Columbia, Canada Dall sheep, a wild sheep of North America Dall's porpoise, a species of porpoise Dallara, an automobile chassis manufacturer...
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    million years ago, possibly from a hard, gummy upper jaw, like the one a Dall's porpoise has; it closely resembles baleen at the microscopic level. The initial...
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    Vaquita (redirect from Gulf porpoise)
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Western Pacific harbour porpoise NE) Vaquita, Phocoena sinus CR Burmeister's porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis DD Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli LC (ssp...
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    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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    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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    right whale dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin, Risso's dolphin and Dall's porpoise. It is agreed upon that the more pingers on a net, the less bycatch...
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  • Thumbnail for Burmeister's porpoise
    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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    unknown. Genetic evidence suggests that within the Delphinoidea clade, porpoises are more closely related to the white whales, and these two families constitute...
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  • Thumbnail for South Asian river dolphin
    porpoise (P. dioptrica) Harbour porpoise (P. phocoena) Vaquita (P. sinus) Burmeister's porpoise (P. spinipinnis) Phocoenoides Dall's porpoise (P. dalli)...
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  • Thumbnail for False killer whale
    mainly in tropical regions. It was first described in 1846 as a species of porpoise based on a skull, which was revised when the first carcasses were observed...
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  • Thumbnail for William Healey Dall
    Massachusetts, where Dall's mother Caroline Wells Healey was a teacher, transcendentalist, reformer, and pioneer feminist. In 1862, Dall's father, on one of...
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  • Thumbnail for Bowhead whale
    porpoise (P. dioptrica) Harbour porpoise (P. phocoena) Vaquita (P. sinus) Burmeister's porpoise (P. spinipinnis) Phocoenoides Dall's porpoise (P. dalli)...
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    an infraorder that comprises the 94 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. It is divided into toothed whales (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti)...
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  • Thumbnail for East Asian finless porpoise
    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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  • finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis EN IUCN Genus: Phocoena Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena LC IUCN Genus: Phocoenoides Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides...
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    Delphinapterus leucas vagrant Family: Phocoenidae Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli Family: Physeteridae Pygmy sperm...
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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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    member of the unranked clade Cetacea, with all the whales, dolphins, and porpoises, and further classified into Odontoceti, containing all the toothed whales...
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  • Thumbnail for Kenai Fjords National Park
    park waters include orca, fin whale, humpback whale, minke whales, Dall's porpoise and Pacific white-sided dolphin. Birds that nest in this park include...
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    Family: Phocoenidae Genus: Phocoena Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena VU Genus: Phocoenoides Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli Family: Ziphidae Genus:...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Yangtze finless porpoise
    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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  • Thumbnail for Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
    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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  • Thumbnail for Cetacea
    belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body...
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