Note on the finless porpoise washed ashore

Abstract

A male finless porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides measuring 130 cm in total length was washed ashore off Konadu beach near Kozhilode on 1st August 2018 (Fig.1). The morphometric measurements of the partially decomposed specimen is presented in Table 1. There were no injuries on its body and death might have been due to accidental entanglement in gillnet net or seine net