PAINTINGS - (a)SPECTACLED PORPOISE (b)BURMEISTER'S PORPOISE

SPECTACLED PORPOISE (Phocoena dioptrica)
Black on the dorsal surface with a pronounced white eye-ring and black lips, this little porpoise is found in the region of Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego. The spectacled porpoise was previously known only from southern South American waters, but a recent skeleton from the Auckland Islands (south of New Zealand) suggests a circumpolar distribution. The male has a greatly exaggerated dorsal - a feature not known to occur in any other small cetacean. 40.

BURMEISTER'S PORPOISE (Phocoena spinipinnis)
Although regularly referred to as the "black porpoise," this animal is, in face, light brown in color. Spinnipinnis means "spiny fin", and the name is derived from the denticles or spines on the leading edge of the unusually shaped dorsal fin. It is convex on the leading edge and concave on the trailing edge, another distinguishing - and unique- characteristic. Like all the other phocoenids, Burmeister's porpoise has little spade-shaped teeth, and is also small and unobtrusive, rarely reaching a length of 6 feet. It is found in the coastal waters of eastern and western South America, from Peru around the Horn to Uruguay.