Sentences with word «odontocetes»

A review of twenty - five years of data on rehabilitation of odontocetes stranded in central and northern California, 1977 to 2002.
With restricted distributions, serious conservation threats, and relatively low taxonomic richness compared with other odontocete clades, the evolutionary history of «river dolphins» remains a topic of perennial interest (Cassens et al., 2000; Hamilton et al., 2001; Nikaido et al., 2001; Pyenson, 2009; Ruiz - Garcia & Shostell, 2010; Turvey et al., 2010; Geisler et al., 2011).
For South America, we conclude that marine odontocetes likely invaded freshwater ecosystems several times, with platanistids representing an initial invasion in the middle Miocene that ultimately disappeared, prior or subsequent to later a singular or repeated inioid invasions in the late Miocene.
[2] Teeth originally identified as representing an unnamed species of Mirounga have been found in South Africa, and dated to the Miocene epoch; [3][4] however Boessenecker & Churchill (2016) considered these teeth to be almost certainly misidentified odontocete teeth.
Eighteen species of odontocetes — the toothed whales and dolphins, which include sperm whales and bottlenose dolphins — call the Hawaiian Islands home.
They feed on fish and squid like other odontocetes (toothed whales) do, but will also target seals, sea birds and even whale species far bigger than themselves.
Based on the age of nearby rocks, the scientists estimate that the Arktocara fossil comes from the late Oligocene epoch, around the time ancient whales diversified into two groups — baleen whales (mysticetes) and toothed whales (odontocetes).
Lastly, comparative phylogenetic analyses of the physiology and functional morphology of odontocetes, and other possible marine tetrapod analogs that have overlapping ecological occupancy will also provide a better basis for evaluating adaptational hypotheses that explain their evolution (Kelley & Pyenson, 2015).
While the ICRW includes definitions of some odontocetes and includes references to toothed whales in its schedule (the binding rules and definitions that implement the ICRW), the IWC has concentrated its management on the great whales, setting quotas and other restrictions on hunting.
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