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Editorial: Whales and climate

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Jan-Olaf Meynecke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new kentriodontine dolphin from the middle Miocene of Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A nearly complete skull, a partial left scapula, five lumbar vertebrae, and some fragments of ribs of a medium-sized kentriodontid dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti) discovered in the middle Miocene of Setúbal Peninsula, Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal, are ...
Estevens, M., Lambert, O., Smith, R.
core  

Biological parameters of franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei, bycaught in artisanal fisheries off southern Buenos Aires, Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) is a small coastal dolphin endemic to the south-western Atlantic ocean. Incidental captures in fishing gillnets is possibly the greatest conservation concern for this species, and occurs within most of ...
Cappozzo, Humberto Luis   +5 more
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33. The Brain of the Zeuglodonlidæ (Cetacea)

open access: yesProceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1923
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Dart, Raymond A. (Raymond Arthur),   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Characteristics of order Cetacea (whales) and causes of their vulnerability in the Adriatic Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Kitovi (Cetacea) su jedini sisavci koji su prilagodili život u potpunosti u vodi. Ima ih više od 80 vrsta, a neke nastanjuju osim mora i rijeke. Dijele se na dva podreda: kitove zubane (Odontoceti) i usane (Mysticeti).
Babić, Jelena
core   +2 more sources

Studies of Tasmanian Cetacea. Part IV. Delphinus delphis (the common dolphin) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1920
The dolphin is common around the Tasmanian coast and in the estuaries of the larger rivers, sometimes ascending them for many miles from the open sea.
Lord, Clive Errol, Scott, Herbert Hedley
core   +1 more source

First stranding records of Ziphius cavirostris (Cetacea, Odontoceti) on the coast of Espírito Santo, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2010
This study presents the first stranding records of Ziphius cavirostris (Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823) (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The first occurrence was recorded in the second half of 2007 on Trindade Island (20°30’
Luis Felipe Silva Pereira Mayorga   +2 more
doaj  

Whale phylogeny and rapid radiation events revealed using novel retroposed elements and their flanking sequences

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Background A diversity of hypotheses have been proposed based on both morphological and molecular data to reveal phylogenetic relationships within the order Cetacea (dolphins, porpoises, and whales), and great progress has been made in the past two ...
Zhou Kaiya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are currently recognized as a single ecologically and morphologically diverse, globally distributed species. Multiple morphotypes or ecotypes have been described, often associated with feeding specialization, and several ...
Phillip A. Morin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seven new dolphin mitochondrial genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny of whales

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009
Background The phylogeny of Cetacea (whales) is not fully resolved with substantial support. The ambiguous and conflicting results of multiple phylogenetic studies may be the result of the use of too little data, phylogenetic methods that do not ...
Zhou Kaiya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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