Morphometric analysis of cranial morphology in pinnipeds (Mammalia, Carnivora): Convergence, ecology, ontogeny, and dimorphism

• Main Authors: Jones, KE, Goswami, A
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Reeves; Sinclair; Erignathus barbatus; Lobodon carcinophagus; Odobenus rosmarus; walrus*
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/82027/

© Cambridge University Press 2010.Pinnipeds are a clade of secondarily aquatic arctoid carnivorans, including 34 extant species dispersed across most of the world's oceans. Extant species are separated into three families (Figure 12.1): Odobenidae (walruses, 1 species), Phocidae (seals, 19 spec...