Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: a guide to their identification

• Main Authors: Leatherwood, Stephen, Reeves, Randall R., Perrin, William F., Evans, William E., Hobbs, Larry
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service 1982
• Subjects: Ecology; Conservation; Management; Fisheries; Biology; Environment; whale; dolphin; porpoise; cetacean; marine mammal; species identification; North Pacific Ocean; Arctic Ocean; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service; Arctic; Hobbs; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/19280

This is an identification guide for cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), that was designed to assist laymen in identifying cetaceans encountered in eastern North Pacific and Arctic waters. It was intended for use by ongoing cetacean observer programs. This is a revision of an earlier guide with the same title published in 1972 by the Naval Undersa Center and the National Marine Fisheries Service. It includes sections on identifying cetaceans at sea as well as stranded animals on shore. Species accounts are divided by body size and presence or lack of a dorsal fin. Appendices include illustrations of tags on whales, dolphins, and porpoises, by Larry Hobbs; how to record data from observed cetaceans at sea and for stranded cetaceans; and a list of cetacean names in Japanese and Russian. (Document contains 245 pages - file takes considerable time to open) National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA Scanned by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, August 2008.