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Marine mammal skin microbiotas are influenced by host phylogeny [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Skin-associated microorganisms have been shown to play a role in immune function and disease of humans, but are understudied in marine mammals, a diverse animal group that serve as sentinels of ocean health.
Amy Apprill +10 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Belonging to the anopluran family Echinophthiriidae, Echinophthirius horridus, the seal louse, has been reported to parasitise a broad range of representatives of phocid seals.
Jörg Hirzmann +7 more
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Can you hear me now? A comparative survey of pinniped auditory apparatus morphology
Zoodiversity, 2021 Over the past century research on the morphology of the auditory apparatuses of pinnipeds, which include Phocidae (true seals), Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), and Odobenidae (walruses) is extremely limited, in comparison to other Carnivora ...
Lindsey Koper +2 more
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, 2021 Family PHOCIDAE J. Gray, 1821 (Figs 172-178)
Jackson, Stephen M. +3 more
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, 2005 Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 595, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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Taxonomic implications of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Fossil Phocidae (earless seals) are mostly known from isolated postcranial material, forcing researchers to rely upon humeri and femora for the diagnosis of taxa and reconstruction of phylogeny.
Morgan Churchill, Mark D. Uhen
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Unique Short-Faced Miocene Seal Discovered in Grytsiv (Ukraine)
Zoodiversity, 2021 Numerous Miocene fossil terrestrial mammals have been discovered at the Gritsev locality of Ukraine, but this is the first record of a fossil marine mammal found at this site.
S. Rahmat, I. Koretsky
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Revista Minerva, 2022 Durante el mes de enero de 2021, se tuvo la visita de un “elefante marino del sur” Mirounga leonida [Linnaeus, 1758] en la costa de El Salvador, Océano Pacífico centroamericano, específicamente se observó en la zona occidental entre 15 y 16 de enero en ...
Wilfredo A. López +5 more
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A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic ...
Leonard Dewaele +2 more
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