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An annotated checklist of mesoplodont whale species (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) discovered during the nineteenth century

Archives of Natural History, 2015
Eight species of mesoplodont whales (genus Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850) named during the nineteenth century are based on valid descriptions. A checklist with the original description and type material for each of these species is provided. Additional data given may include type locality and illustrative sources, type material holding institution and type ...
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First record of Ramari's beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) for Uruguay

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Abstract We report the first record of Ramari's beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu) from the temperate Southwestern Atlantic. Our analysis is based on an adult female and a plausibly associated calf/juvenile that stranded on the coast of Canelones Department, Uruguay. The species of the two individuals was identified via a combination of morphometric and
Meica Valdivia, Lucía Frones, Emilia Rossini, Paula Laporta, Emma L. Carroll, Michael R. McGowen, Felix G. Marx, Néstor Ríos   +7 more
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Relationships of Messapicetus longirostris (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) from the Miocene of south Italy

1994
Messapicetus longirostris Bianucci, Landini & Varola, 1992 (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) is known from a nearly complete skull collected in the lower Tortonian sediments of the Pietra leccese formation, at Cavallino near Lecce (Apulia, Italy). The peculiar morphology and significant lengthening of the rostrum suggests that there exists a particular trophic ...
BIANUCCI, GIOVANNI, LANDINI, WALTER, Varola A.   +2 more
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Two genetically distinct stocks in Baird's beaked whale (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)

Marine Mammal Science, 2012
Shino Kitamura, Takashi Matsuishi, Tadasu K. Yamada, Yuko Tajima, Hajime Ishikawa, Shinsuke Tanabe, Hajime Nakagawa, Yoshikazu Uni, Syuiti Abe   +8 more
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Observations of Mesoplodon stejnegeri (Ziphiidae) in the Central Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Journal of Mammalogy, 1982
T. R. Loughlin, C. H. Fiscus, A. M. Johnson, D. J. Rugh   +3 more
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‘Antlers inside’: are the skull structures of beaked whales (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) used for echoic imaging and visual display?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014
Pavel Gol'din
exaly  

Ziphiidae

1988
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Phylogeny of the Beaked Whale Genus Mesoplodon (Ziphiidae: Cetacea) Revealed by Nuclear Introns: Implications for the Evolution of Male Tusks

Systematic Biology, 2008
Debbie Steel, C Scott Baker
exaly  

Beaked Whales (Ziphiidae)

1988
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A NEW SPECIES OF BEAKED WHALE MESOPLODON PERUVIANUS SP. N. (CETACEA: ZIPHIIDAE) FROM PERU

Marine Mammal Science, 1991
James G Mead, Koen Van Waerebeek
exaly