Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 6
Subtitle: The Second Book of Dolphins and the Porpoises (Handbook of Marine Mammals)
Contributors: Sam H. Ridgway (Series Editor); Richard Harrison (Series Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 23, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780125885065
First sentence: A dolphin caught off Great Yarmouth, England, and reported by Brightwell (1846) as belonging to Delphinus tursio Fabricius, 1780, was described by Gray ( 1846a) as a new genus and species, Lagenorhynchus albirostris.