Life History Traits of Sperm Whales Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 Stranded along Italian Coasts (Cetartiodactyla: Physeteridae) [PDF]
Animals, 2022 We investigated the relationship between age and body length, and age at sexual maturity of Physeter macrocephalus individuals stranded along the Italian coast.
Nicola Maio +17 more
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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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Middle/late Miocene hoplocetine sperm whale remains (Odontoceti: Physeteridae) of North Germany with an emended classification of the Hoplocetinae [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2006 Hoplocetus ritzi n. sp. is a new hoplocetine physeterid from the Bolboforma fragori /subfragoris Zone of the middle/late Miocene mica-clay of Groß Pampau in Schleswig-Holstein, North Germany.
O. Hampe
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Endo- and ectoparasites of large whales (Cetartiodactyla: Balaenopteridae, Physeteridae): Overcoming difficulties in obtaining appropriate samples by non- and minimally-invasive methods [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015 Baleen and sperm whales, belonging to the Order Cetartiodactyla, are the largest and heaviest existent mammals in the world, collectively known as large whales.
Carlos Hermosilla +5 more
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First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 The Swiss Upper Marine Molasse (OMM) documents a transgression event dated to around 21 to 17 million years in which dolphin and other vertebrate remains have been reported.
Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández +2 more
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Morphological Structure of the Aortic Wall in Deep Diving Cetacean Species: Evidence for Diving Adaptation [PDF]
Veterinary Sciences, 2022 This study analyses the aortic wall structure in nine cetacean species with deep diving habits belonging to four Odontoceti families: Ziphiidae, Kogiidae, Physteridae, and Delphinidae. Samples of ascending, thoracic and abdominal aorta were processed for
Blanca Mompeó +6 more
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A Comparison of Fossils of the Two Whale Fam ilies: Physeteridae and Monodentidae (Cetacea) [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2016 Whales are a group of marine creatures that have elicited scientifi c and layman’s curiosity since long. The present paper has a focus on elucidating fossils of two Odontoceti families viz. Physeteridae and Monodentidae.
Pankaj S. Bhatnagar
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Patterns of cetacean sighting distribution in the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone of Costa Rica based on data collected from 1979-2001 [PDF]
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2005 Nineteen species of cetaceans (families Balaenopteridae, Kogiidae, Physeteridae, Ziphiidae and Delphinidae) occur in the Costa Rican Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Laura May-Collado +4 more
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Data on biology and exploitation of West Atlantic sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus (Cetacea: Physeteridae) off the coast of Paraíba, Brazil [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009 This study analyzes data on the biology of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758, obtained between 1965 and 1980 by the COPESBRA at the Costinha Whaling Station, Paraíba, Brazil.
Gustavo Toledo, Alfredo Langguth
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KOGIA PUSILLA FROM THE MIDDLE PLIOCENE OF TUSCANY (ITALY) AND A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE FAMILY KOGIIDAE (ODONTOCETI, CETACEA) [PDF]
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 1999 A partial skull of an odontocete cetacean from Middle Pliocene sediments of Monte Voltraio (Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy) is examined. This fossil, erroneously referred to the family Ziphiidae and described in the past as holotype of the species ...
GIOVANNI BIANUCCI, WALTER LANDINI
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