Geographical variation in skull morphology of the irrawaddy dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866)

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL. 10, 2002, Pages 15-34

  Beasley, Isabel ^a   Arnold, Peter ^a   Heinsohn, George ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cranial osteology; Geographical variation; Irrawaddy dolphin; Orcaella brevirostris; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ORCAELLA BREVIROSTRIS;

EID: 0036587968     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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