Bibliography for ZIPHIIDAE

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• Baker, A.N. 2001. Status, relationshoips, and distribution of Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908 (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Marine Mammal Science 17: 473-493
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• Dalebout, M.L., Ross, G.J.B., Baker, C.S., Anderson, R.C., Best, P.B. Cockcroft, V.G., Hinsz, H.L., Peddemors, V. & Pitman, R.L. 2003. Appearance, distribution and genetic distinctiveness of Longman's beaked whale, Indopacetus pacificus. Marine Mammal Science 19: 421-461
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• Gale, N.J., Dalebout, M.L. & Bannister, J. 2002. Genetic identification and biological observation of two free-swimming beaked whales: Hector's beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori, Gray, 1871), and Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi), Von Haast, 1876). Marine Mammal Science 18: 544-551
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• Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.
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• Kemper, C., Gibbs, P., Obendorf, D., Marvanek, S. & Lenghaus, C. 1994. A review of heavy metal and organochlorine levels in marine mammals in Australia. Science and the Total Environment 154: 129-139
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• Ling, J.K. & Aitken, P.F. 1981. Marine mammals in South Australia. in, S.A. Year Book, 1981. Adelaide : Australian Bureau of Statistics 10 pp.
• Longman, H.A. 1926. New records of Cetacea, with a list of Queensland species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8: 266-278
• MacLeod, C.D. & Zuur, A.F. 2005. Habitat utilization by Blainville's beaked whales off Great Abaco, northern Bahamas, in relation to seabed topography. Marine Biology 147: 1-11
• Madsen, P.T., Johnson, M., de Soto, N.A., Zimmer, W.M.X. & Tyack, P. 2005. Biosonar performance of foraging beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 181-194
• Mead, J.G. 1975. A specimen of the Tasman beaked whale, Tasmacetus shepherdi, from Argentina. Journal of Mammalogy 56: 213-218
• Mead, J.G. 1981. First records of Mesoplodon hectori (Ziphiidae) from the northern hemisphere and a description of the adult male. Journal of Mammalogy 62: 430-432
• Mead, J.G. 1989. Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon. pp. 349-430 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 4. River dolphins and the larger toothed whales. London : Academic Press 442 pp.
• Mead, J.G. 1989. Bottlenose whales - Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770) and Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882. pp. 321-348 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 4. River dolphins and the larger toothed whales. London : Academic Press 442 pp.
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• Mead, J.G. & Brownell, R.L. 1993. Order Cetacea. pp. 349-364 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp.
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• Ogilby, J.D. 1892. Catalogue of Australian Mammalia, with introductory notes on general mammology. Cat. Aust. Mus. No. 16 . xvi 142 pp.
• Oliver, W.R.B. 1937. Tasmacetus shepherdi: a new genus and species of beaked whale from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 371-381
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• Paterson, R.A. & Parker, R.E. 1994. Aerial observations of large ziphiid whales, possibly Berardius arnuxii, off the southern coast of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37: 301-306
• Pitman, R.L., Palacios, D.M.,Brennan, P.L., Balcomb, K.C.I. & Miyashita, T. 1999. Sightings and possible identity of a bottlenose whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific: Indopacetus pacificus? Marine Mammal Science 15: 531-549
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