A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic
This paper mainly concerns the dissection of a lactating female southern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon planifrons especially shot and worked up for the author in the Antarctic 61°09'S, 86°44'E on 10 March 1948. The skeleton is in the British Museum (Natural History). A comparison with what i...
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ftjlajam:oai:ojs.lajamjournal.org:article/218 2023-05-15T13:55:23+02:00 A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic Clarke, R. 2005-12-31 application/pdf http://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/218 https://doi.org/10.5597/lajam00074 eng eng Sociedad Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Mamíferos Acuáticos (SOLAMAC) http://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/218/170 http://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/218 doi:10.5597/lajam00074 Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals; Vol. 4, No. 2 (2005); 83-96 2236-1057 1676-7497 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2005 ftjlajam https://doi.org/10.5597/lajam00074 2022-01-04T10:15:56Z This paper mainly concerns the dissection of a lactating female southern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon planifrons especially shot and worked up for the author in the Antarctic 61°09'S, 86°44'E on 10 March 1948. The skeleton is in the British Museum (Natural History). A comparison with what is known of the female northern bottlenose whale H. ampullatus shows no differences in morphometry, body colour, external characters, digestive system and reproductive system, parasites and the vertebral formula and the digital formula of the flipper. There remain acknowledged differences in the skull which may be reduced or perhaps even disappear when further comparisons are attempted between skulls from males and females of similar ages. There is also the confusion when identifying ziphiid whales at sea. These observations have suggested to the author that there may be only one Hyperoodon species with a continuous distribution north and south. But Dalebout et al. (2004), applying DNA sequencies in molecular taxonomy, have now shown that all 21 species of ziphiid whales are valid. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Northern bottlenose whale Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (LAJAM) Antarctic The Antarctic Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 4 2 |
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This paper mainly concerns the dissection of a lactating female southern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon planifrons especially shot and worked up for the author in the Antarctic 61°09'S, 86°44'E on 10 March 1948. The skeleton is in the British Museum (Natural History). A comparison with what is known of the female northern bottlenose whale H. ampullatus shows no differences in morphometry, body colour, external characters, digestive system and reproductive system, parasites and the vertebral formula and the digital formula of the flipper. There remain acknowledged differences in the skull which may be reduced or perhaps even disappear when further comparisons are attempted between skulls from males and females of similar ages. There is also the confusion when identifying ziphiid whales at sea. These observations have suggested to the author that there may be only one Hyperoodon species with a continuous distribution north and south. But Dalebout et al. (2004), applying DNA sequencies in molecular taxonomy, have now shown that all 21 species of ziphiid whales are valid. |
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A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic |
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A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic |
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A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic |
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A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic |
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A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic |
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