Showing posts with label porpoise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porpoise. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Guinevereous Liraki



The British Museum of Natural History gave each yacht entered in the 1968 trans-atlantic race a log book asking each crew to record sightings of mammals including where,when, and under what conditions the sightings occurred. There were many sightings, I had forgotten until now, I described the porpoise in the photo, Geroge Moffett, the owner of the boat turned the log in at the end of the race. About a year later he wrote to me that the porpoise had been identified as a unique species within the family of Phocoenidae and that the Museum had attributed it the name "Guinevereous Liraki"
I have no substantiation of the story as I have long ago lost the letter.