Stomach anatomy and use in defining systemic relationships of the Cetacean family Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 581-595

  Mead, James G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Berardius; Hyperoodon; Mesoplodon; Stomach; Systematics; Tasmacetus; Ziphiidae; Ziphius

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMACH CONTENT; WHALE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; VARIATION (GENETICS); WHALES;

BERARDIUS; BERARDIUS BAIRDII; CETACEA; HYPEROODON; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON; MESOPLODON BIDENS; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; MESOPLODON EUROPAEUS; MESOPLODON MIRUS; MESOPLODON PERRINI; MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI; TASMACETUS; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS;

EID: 34250622929     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20536     Document Type: Article

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