The pygmy right whale Caperea marginata: The last of the cetotheres

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1753, 2013, Pages

  Ewan Fordyce, R ^a   Marx, Felix G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Baleen whales; Caperea marginata; Cetotheriidae; Phylogenetics; Pygmy right whale; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; WHALE;

NEW ZEALAND;

CAPEREA; CAPEREA MARGINATA; CETACEA; CETOTHERIIDAE; MYSTICETI;

EID: 84872173941     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2645     Document Type: Article

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