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The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae

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The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae

Frederick William True

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Some whales are so seldom seen that science knows them mostly from bones washed onto a beach. Frederick True examines the beaked whales along both American coasts, describing the skulls and skeletons of these deep-diving mysteries, genus by genus. A careful monograph on some of the ocean's least-known giants. Surface briefly with the elusive whales of the open sea.

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119 chapters

  1. 1Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidæ in the U. S. National Museum
  2. 2ADVERTISEMENT.
  3. 3TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  4. 4INTRODUCTION.
  5. 5EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
  6. 6WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
  7. 7DESCRIPTIONS OF SKULLS AND SKELETONS OF ZIPHIOID WHALES.
  8. 8Genus MESOPLODON Gervais.
  9. 9MESOPLODON BIDENS (Sowerby).
  10. 10SKULL.
  11. 11MANDIBLE.
  12. 12TEETH.
  13. 13MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS (Blainville)?
  14. 14MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS (Gervais).
  15. 15SPECIFIC CHARACTERS.
  16. 16SKULL.
  17. 17MANDIBLE.
  18. 18VERTEBRÆ.

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