CRANIAL SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AND GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN ERASER'S DOLPHIN, LAGENODELPHIS HOSEI

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Perrin, William F., Dolar, M. Louella L., Amano, Masao, Hayano, Azusa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2003
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Pacific; Nares; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2003.tb01316.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1748-7692.2003.tb01316.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2003.tb01316.x

A bstract Knowledge of geographic variation is important to questions of population assessment and management. Fraser's dolphins have been exploited in two regions in the western Pacific. Analysis of 137 skulls from the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, F...