Key Identification Features
- It has a wide, robust body, a comparatively small head, and no distinct beak.
- Two distinct color morphs have been documented: the dalli type and the truei type.
- Their underside is much whiter, though it usually has grey stripes running along the throat from the underside of the body.
- The workshop concluded that harbour porpoise population structure is more complex than previously thought, with at least three genetically distinct subspecies in the North Atlantic.
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