Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins Tursiops aduncus in Amakusa, western Kyushu, Japan

Fisheries Science

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 654-656

  Shirakihara, Miki ^a   Yoshida, Hideyoshi ^b   Shirakihara, Kunio ^c  

^a Natl Res Inst of Far Seas Fish ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amakusa; mtDNA cytochrome b gene sequences; Skull measurements; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038150441     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2003.00669.x     Document Type: Article

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