Strategies for conserving marine mammals
Marine mammals arc often considered as a group by the general public, biologists, natural resource managers and legislators. Nonetheless, they comprise members of three very different orders of animals with different evolutionary histories. The Carnivora includes 36 extant and recently extinct speci...
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ftjamescook:oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:7428 2023-09-05T13:18:22+02:00 Strategies for conserving marine mammals Marsh, Helene Arnold, Peter Freeman, Milton Haynes, David Laist, David Read, Andrew Reynolds, John Kasuya, Toshio Gales, Nick Hindell, Mark Kirkwood, Roger 2003 application/pdf https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/7428/1/7428_Marsh_et_al._2003.pdf unknown CSIRO Publishing https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/7428/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/7428/1/7428_Marsh_et_al._2003.pdf Marsh, Helene, Arnold, Peter , Freeman, Milton, Haynes, David, Laist, David, Read, Andrew , Reynolds, John , and Kasuya, Toshio (2003) Strategies for conserving marine mammals. In: Gales, Nick, Hindell, Mark, and Kirkwood, Roger, (eds.) Marine Mammals: fisheries, tourism and management issues. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia, pp. 1-19. restricted Book Chapter PeerReviewed 2003 ftjamescook 2023-08-22T19:49:16Z Marine mammals arc often considered as a group by the general public, biologists, natural resource managers and legislators. Nonetheless, they comprise members of three very different orders of animals with different evolutionary histories. The Carnivora includes 36 extant and recently extinct species of seals, sealions and walruses (Rice 1998) as well as the polar bear and two species of marine otters. Systematists disagree about the exact number of species of the order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Rice (1998) lists 83 species in two sub-orders: the Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales). There are four extant species of Sirenia (manatees and dugongs). The gigantic Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by sealers in the eighteenth cetury. Book Part baleen whales Hydrodamalis gigas polar bear Steller's sea cow toothed whales walrus* James Cook University, Australia: ResearchOnline@JCU |
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Marine mammals arc often considered as a group by the general public, biologists, natural resource managers and legislators. Nonetheless, they comprise members of three very different orders of animals with different evolutionary histories. The Carnivora includes 36 extant and recently extinct species of seals, sealions and walruses (Rice 1998) as well as the polar bear and two species of marine otters. Systematists disagree about the exact number of species of the order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Rice (1998) lists 83 species in two sub-orders: the Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales). There are four extant species of Sirenia (manatees and dugongs). The gigantic Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by sealers in the eighteenth cetury. |
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https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/7428/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/7428/1/7428_Marsh_et_al._2003.pdf Marsh, Helene, Arnold, Peter , Freeman, Milton, Haynes, David, Laist, David, Read, Andrew , Reynolds, John , and Kasuya, Toshio (2003) Strategies for conserving marine mammals. In: Gales, Nick, Hindell, Mark, and Kirkwood, Roger, (eds.) Marine Mammals: fisheries, tourism and management issues. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia, pp. 1-19. |
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