Figure 2. Canonical variate 1 and 2 in Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales ( Orcinus orca ): Bigg's and resident ecotypes deserve species status

• Main Authors: Morin, Phillip A., McCarthy, Morgan L., Fung, Charissa W., Durban, John W., Parsons, Kim M., Perrin, William F., Taylor, Barbara L., Jefferson, Thomas A., Archer, Frederick I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Orcinus; Orca; Orcinus orca
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11031725

Figure 2. Canonical variate 1 and 2 plots for cranial shape features that distinguish among ecotypes for (a) skull morphology (resident (n = 17), Bigg's (n = 13) and offshore (n = 6)) and (b) dentary bone morphology (resident (n = 21), Bigg's (n = 12) and offshore (n = 8) specimens) (reprinted from [103]). Published as part of Morin, Phillip A., McCarthy, Morgan L., Fung, Charissa W., Durban, John W., Parsons, Kim M., Perrin, William F., Taylor, Barbara L., Jefferson, Thomas A. & Archer, Frederick I., 2024, Royal Society Open Science (231368) 11 (3) on pages 1-23, DOI:10.1098/rsos.231368, http://zenodo.org/record/11029509