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Marine mammals of the world : a comprehensive guide to their identification /

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With coverage on all the marine mammals of the world, authors Jefferson, Webber, and Pitman have created a user-friendly guide to identify marine mammals alive in nature (at sea or on the beach), dead specimens "in hand", and also to identify marine mammals based on features of the skull....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jefferson, Thomas A.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Webber, Marc A., Pitman, Robert L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Burlington, MA : Academic, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Marine mammals.
Marine mammals > Identification.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Basic marine mammal biology
  • Taxonomic groupings above the species level
  • Cetacean species accounts
  • Pinniped species accounts
  • Sirenian and other species accounts
  • Extinct species accounts
  • Dichotomous identification keys
  • Summaries of characters for similar species
  • Glossary of technical terms
  • References
  • Index, common names
  • Index, scientific names.