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Marine mammals of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva), Chile: a review and new records

open access: yesLatin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2014
The Chilean oceanic islands Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva) have received little attention with regards to basic marine mammal investigations.
Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cetáceos del Pací­fico de Guatemala: Cincuenta años de historia

open access: yesCiencia, Tecnología y Salud, 2014
En Guatemala el estudio de los cetáceos inició en la década de los sesenta con los primeros registros de varamiento y captura incidental. Sin embargo, pocos trabajos cientí­ficos con datos de cetáceos han sido publicados.
Andrea A. Cabrera Arreola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual selection of protamine 1 in mammals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Protamines have a crucial role in male fertility. They are involved in sperm chromatin packaging and influence the shape of the sperm head and, hence, are important for sperm performance.
Lüke, Lena   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Physeteridae Gray 1821

open access: yes, 1982
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
Honacki, James H.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Unveiling Patterns in Cetacean Strandings Along Southern Atlantic Iberia: Temporal and Spatial Trends, Seasonality, and Causes of Death

open access: yesMarine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT We compiled 46 years of cetacean strandings in the Algarve, Portugal, describing temporal–spatial patterns, size–sex structure, and causes of death (COD). We analyzed national records and years with a dedicated regional stranding network (SN) to assess annual/seasonal trends, spatial hotspots, and compare biometrics and COD.
Jan Hofman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A small sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti, Physeteridae) from the Miocene of Antwerp [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In the summer of 1967 during the construction of the circular highway in the city of Antwerp (Belgium) the fossil remains of a small physeterid whale were discovered.
Monteiro, H., Peters, N.
core  

Sur deux specimens du genre Kogia (Cetacea, Physeteridae) en Nouvelle-Caledonie

open access: yes, 1980
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Robineau, D., /Rancurel, Paul
openaire   +2 more sources

Marine Mammals in the Anthropocene: Developing a Systematic Evidence Base of Threats to Nineteen Species

open access: yesMammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
Marine mammals are vulnerable to a variety of anthropogenic threats, yet a global systematic map of the literature for 19 species found both spatial and temporal disparity in research effort between threats and between species. There are knowledge gaps for species and threats, with effort unequal across many species' ranges.
Emily L. Hague   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Note sur les échouages du Grand Cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, en Vendée pour la période 1900-2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This note states the number of grounded sperm whales on the French Atlantic coast and more especially on the coast of Vendée between 1900 and ...
Vimpère, Jean
core  

A NEW PLIOCENE SPERM WHALE FROM VIGLIANO D’ASTI, PIEDMONT, NORTHWEST ITALY

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
A new sperm whale species is described from the late Zanclean (Early Pliocene) of Piedmont, northwest Italy, based on a partial vertebral column and parts of the forelimb. The new taxon, Eophyseter damarcoi gen. nov. sp.
Michelangelo Bisconti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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