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Editorial Reviews
Debra Palka, National Marine Fisheries Service, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2001
"Overall, this is a useful and well-research handbook that belongs in the libraries of all cetacean researchers."
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"With the recent need for biological knowledge of cetaceans, this book is timely. ...This book is a good reference because it gives in a single volume a considerable amount of biological information... Overall, this is a useful and well-research handbook that belongs in the libraries of all cetacean researchers."
—Debra Palka, National Marine Fisheries Service, in THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY (2001)
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"Overall, this is a useful and well-research handbook that belongs in the libraries of all cetacean researchers."
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"With the recent need for biological knowledge of cetaceans, this book is timely. ...This book is a good reference because it gives in a single volume a considerable amount of biological information... Overall, this is a useful and well-research handbook that belongs in the libraries of all cetacean researchers."
—Debra Palka, National Marine Fisheries Service, in THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY (2001)
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A dolphin caught off Great Yarmouth, England, and reported by Brightwell (1846) as belonging to Delphinus tursio Fabricius, 1780, was described by Gray ( 1846a) as a new genus and species, Lagenorhynchus albirostris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Bay of Fundy, British Columbia, New Zealand, Van Waerebeek, San Diego, Gulf of California, International Whaling Commission, Indian Ocean, United States, Whales Res, South Africa, Tierra del Fuego, Yangtze River, Gulf of Maine, North Sea, Faroe Islands, Mammals of the Sea, British Museum, South America, University of California Press, Biology of Marine Mammals, Gulf of Mexico, North America
A dolphin caught off Great Yarmouth, England, and reported by Brightwell (1846) as belonging to Delphinus tursio Fabricius, 1780, was described by Gray ( 1846a) as a new genus and species, Lagenorhynchus albirostris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Bay of Fundy, British Columbia, New Zealand, Van Waerebeek, San Diego, Gulf of California, International Whaling Commission, Indian Ocean, United States, Whales Res, South Africa, Tierra del Fuego, Yangtze River, Gulf of Maine, North Sea, Faroe Islands, Mammals of the Sea, British Museum, South America, University of California Press, Biology of Marine Mammals, Gulf of Mexico, North America