Blainville's beaked whale in New Caledonia

Pacific Science

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 467-472

  Borsa, Philippe ^a   Robineau, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; WHALE;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CETACEA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 21544470226     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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