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Marine Mammals of the World
A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification
2nd Edition - July 28, 2015
Authors: Marc A. Webber, Thomas Allen Jefferson, Robert L. Pitman
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780124095427
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eBook ISBN:9780124095922
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This new edition of Marine Mammals of the World describes and illustrates newly discovered and rarely photographed species, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-dat…Read more
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This new edition of Marine Mammals of the World describes and illustrates newly discovered and rarely photographed species, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date identification guide available.
This edition continues to meet the research-focused needs of marine biologists and conservation biologists by providing a tremendous influx of new photos, taking advantage of advances in digital and auto-focusing photography, and the emergence of marine mammal studies and "whalewatching" around the world. The book encompasses cetacean, pinniped, and sirenian species, as well as extinct species, and describes basic biology and taxonomic groupings of marine mammals.
Contains superb photographs of every species of marine mammal for accurate identification
Authors possess nearly 80 years of collective experience with almost all of the species and distinctive geographic forms described in the guide
Provides the most detailed and anatomically accurate illustrations currently available, including more than 750 new illustrations
Special emphasis is placed on the identification of species in "problem groups," such as the beaked whales, long-beaked oceanic dolphins, and southern fur seals
Includes a detailed list of sources for more information
Contains updated taxonomy including four new species
Marine biologists and ecologists, comparative biologists and physiologists, conservation biologists, and upper UG/grad/postdoc students in these areas.
Preface and Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
The Need for This Guide
Marine Mammal Identification and How to Use This Guide
Notes on the Format of the Species Accounts
Notes on the Identification Keys
Request For Feedback from Users
2: Basic Marine Mammal Biology
What is a Marine Mammal?
Types of Marine Mammals
Basic Marine Mammal Biology
3: Taxonomic Groupings Above the Species Level
Cetacea—Whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Order Sirenia—Manatees and Dugongs
Order Carnivora—Carnivorous mammals (including pinnipeds, marine otters, and polar bear)
Pinnipedia—Seals, sea lions, and walruses
4: Cetaceans
North Atlantic Right Whale—Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)
North Pacific Right Whale—Eubalaena japonica (Lacépéde, 1818)
Southern Right Whale—Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822)
Bowhead Whale—Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Pygmy Right Whale—Caperea marginata (Gray, 1846)
Blue Whale—Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fin Whale—Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sei Whale—Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828
Bryde’s Whale—Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879
Omura’s Whale—Balaenoptera omurai Wada, Oishi, and Yamada, 2003
Common Minke Whale—Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
A Key to Identification of Cetaceans of the World, Based on External Appearance
B Key to Identification of Cetaceans of the World, Based on Skull Morphology
C Key to Identification of Baleen Whales of the World, Based on Baleen Plates
D Key to Identification of Pinnipeds of the World, Based on External Appearance
E Key to Identification of Pinnipeds of the World, Based on Skull Morphology
F Key to Identification of Sirenians of the World, Based on External Appearance and Distribution
G Key to Identification of Sirenians of the World, Based on Skull Morphology
10: Sources for More Information
Index—Common Names
Index—Scientific Names
Photo Credit Suplementary Information
No. of pages: 616
Language: English
Edition: 2
Published: July 28, 2015
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780124095427
eBook ISBN: 9780124095922
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Marc A. Webber
Marc Webber is a marine mammal specialist with an undergraduate and graduate degree from San Francisco State University. He has worked as a biologist and refuge manager for non-profit organizations and the US government for his entire career in places all over the country. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Webber has worked with stranded marine mammals, conducted marine mammal and seabird studies by ship and aircraft for NMFS and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the North and South Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic, studied Monk Seals in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Northern Fur Seals at San Miguel and the Pribilof Islands, Walrus in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, Harp Seals in Russia, and Dusky Dolphins in New Zealand. He has done extensive work with stranded marine mammals, co-authored many journal articles and book chapters, and conducted marine mammal and seabird ship and aircraft surveys over most oceans of the world.
Affiliations and expertise
Golden Gate Cetacean Research, Corte Madera, CA USA
TJ
Thomas Allen Jefferson
Dr. Thomas Jefferson’s main interests are the development of marine mammal identification aids, and the systematics and population ecology of the more poorly known species of dolphins and porpoises. His work since receiving his PhD in 1983 has been related to conservation and management of marine mammals threatened by human activities. His current primary research focuses on the conservation biology of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) and finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) populations in Hong Kong and surrounding waters. I am also working on other projects looking at the systematics and ecology of these species throughout their ranges. In addition, I am involved in many other projects, including those on the conservation of the critically endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) and on the taxonomy and population ecology of common dolphins (Delphinus spp.)
Affiliations and expertise
Clymene Enterprises,CA, USA
RP
Robert L. Pitman
Robert L. Pitman is a marine biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California,
and has published extensively on marine birds and mammals. Since 1976 he has averaged 6 months a year
at sea on research vessels operating in all the world’s oceans. His current research interests include ecology
and systematics of killer whales in Antarctica and Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA USA