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Common Porpoise

Educational resources on Common Porpoise

Common Porpoise or Phocoena phocoena is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Common Porpoise

Academic web links for the Common Porpoise.


North American Mammals: Phocoena phocoena
Common Porpoise, Puffing Pig. Sexual Dimorphism: Females are 10%-20% larger than males. Length: Average: 1.6 m Range: 1.5-1.9 m . Weight:
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=279

whale.wheelock.edu
The food of the common porpoise (Phocaena phocaena). J. Zool., Lond. 146:114-122. Rae, B.B. 1973. Additional notes on the food of the common porpoise
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/info98/0320.html

Chapter xxxii - CETOLOGY
...- This is the common porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to
www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/moby_032.html

Porpoise - FOOD RESOURCE - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
The common porpoise is generally about five feet in length, with a smooth, shiny, hairless skin, dark grey or nearly black on the upper part, shading to white on the belly.
food.oregonstate.edu/glossary/p/porpoise.html

GMT symbols for Whale-watchers and marine biologists
...def 9 Southern Rightwhale Dolphin (Lagenodelphis peronii) - srightwhaledolphin_low.def, srightwhaledolphin.def - srightwhaledolphin_high.def 10 Common porpoise
gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/contrib/gmt_cetaceans.html

Guilds — SERDP Marine Mammal Habitat Modeling
...common porpoise: Harbour porpoise (hp3) Phocoena phocoena: common porpoise: humpback whale (Megnov) Megaptera novaeangliae: humpback whale: humpback whales (hw)
serdp.env.duke.edu/models/guilds

www.cs.fiu.edu
What's life like under the sea? Is it a dogfish-eat-dogfish world? Is. everybody united for a common porpoise, or do they all split off into
www.cs.fiu.edu/~kraynek/jokes/fish.jokes

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) - The ARTFL Project
Puff"ing, a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. (Zoöl.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff. -- Puffing pig (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.
machaut.uchicago.edu/WEBSTER.sh?word=Puffing

Mark O. Hatfield Library: Catalogs
Common Porpoise-- See Harbor porpoise : 1 Common Raccoon-- See Raccoon : 1 Common Raven-- See Corvus corax : 1 Common Sagebrush-- See Big sagebrush
library.willamette.edu/search~S4/dCommon+lectionary+(1992)/dcommon+lectionary+1992/-3,-1,0...

Bio 183 Unit 7 Practice Quiz
...c. common porpoise d. humpback e. sperm. 33. Which of the following is NOT a reason that cetaceans are at risk of extinction?
dtc.pima.edu/~biology/183/07_183/07_183practicequiz.html







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