1977. Age determination of harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (L.), in the western North Atlantic. Can. J. Zool. 55: 18-30, Age, based on analysis of dentinal growth layers, was determined in a sample of 121 harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena (L.), from western North Atlantic waters. One growth layer, consisting of a thick opaque zone and a relatively thin translucent zone, is deposited each year.Mean thicknesses of opaque and translucent zones in males and females were 347 p-m, 114 pm, 432 pm, and 125 pm, respectively. Significant reduction in thicknesses of growth layers with age was found in both sexes, the major contribution in both cases being progressive reduction in thickness of the opaque zones. Translucent-zone thickness decreased with age in males, but significantly increased in thickness in females. Formation of the opaque zone occurs from June through February, and formation of the translucent zone from January to early September. This overlap is attributed to the protracted calving season of this population, and precludes any simple relationship between food supply and zonation, as proposed by others. Age-length relationships based on numbers of dentinal layers were calculated for males and females using regression analysis. Best fits of body length (b) against age (expressed by completeddentinal layers)(d) were obtained from the curvilinear equations: d = [bl(-1.30b + 209.35)]-1 for males, and d = [b/(-0.84b + 156.15)] -1 for females. GASKIN, D. E., et B. A. BLAIR. 1977. Age determination of harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoenu (L.), in the western North Atlantic. Can. J. Zool. 55: 18-30. C'est par I'analyse des couches de croissance de la dentine qu'on a determine I'ige de 121 marsouins communs Phocoenaphocoena (L.) venant du nord-ouest de I'Atlantique. I1 se depose une couche de croissance chaque annee, constitute d'une zone epaisse opaque et d'une zone translucide assez mince.Chez les miles, les zones opaque et translucide ont des epaisseurs moyennes respectives de 347 p m et 114 pm, alors que chez les femelles ces tpaisseurs sont de 432 pm et 125 pm. On note chez les deux sexes une importante reduction de l'tpaisseur des couches de croissance avec I'ige, cette reduction venant surtout de la diminution progressive de l'epaisseur des zones opaques. L'epaisseur des zones translucides diminue avec I'lge chez les miles, mais augmente significativement chez les femelles. La formation de la zone opaque se fait de juin a fevrier, celle de la zone translucide de janvier au debut de septembre. Ce chevauchement s'explique par la longueur de la saison d'elevage des petits chez cette population, ecartant ainsi I'hypothese, proposee par d'autres auteurs, d'une simple relation entre la zonation et la disponibilitk de la nournture. Une analyse de regression a permis d'ttablir la relation ige-longueur d'apres le nombre de couches de dentine. C'est par les equations suivantes que la relation longueur du corps (b) et ige (exprimee par la totalitt des couches de dentine) (d) s'exprime le mieux: d = [bl(-1.30b + 2...
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