Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) or false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens)? Identification of a group of small cetaceans Seen off Ecuador in 2003

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 326-327

  Baird, Robin W ^a  

^a CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; FERESA; FERESA ATTENUATA; ORCINUS ORCA; PSEUDORCA; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS;

EID: 77957742219     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.36.3.2010.326     Document Type: Letter

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