Biology, evolution, and conservation of river dolphins within South America and Asia
By: Manuel Ruiz-Garcia and Joseph Mark Shostell, editors
Series: Wildlife protection, destruction and extinction; Wildlife protection, destruction and extinction series
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781611224368
Subjects: Evolution; Animals; NATURE; SCIENCE; Life Sciences; Conservation; Mammals; Zoology; River dolphins
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to river dolphin species / Joseph Mark Shostell and Manuel Ruiz-Garci a; title: Seasonal ecology of Inia in three river basins of South America (Orinoco, Amazon, and upper Madeira) / Tamara L. McGuire and Enzo Aliaga-Rossel; title: Conservation of the river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) in Bolivia / Enzo Aliaga-Rossel; title: Mobility of the axial regions in a captive Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) / Timothy D. Smith and Anne M. Burrows; title: The application of equation models to determine the age of pink river dolphin skulls / Luisa Fernanda Castellanos-Mora, Fernando Trujillo and Manuel Ruiz-Garci a; title: Amazon River dolphin : high phylopatry due to restricted dispersion at large and short distances / Juliana A. Vianna ... [et al.]; title: Amazon River dolphin polymorphism and population differentiation of MHC class II peptides / Mari a Marti nez-Agu ero, Sergio Flores-Rami rez and Manuel Ruiz-Garci a; title: Micro-geographical genetic structure of Inia geoffrensis in the Napo-Curaray River Basin by means of Chesser's models / Manuel Ruiz-Garci a; title: Changes in the demographic trends of pink river dolphins (Inia) at the microgeographical level in Peruvian and Bolivian rivers and within the upper Amazon : microsatellites and mtDNA analyses and insights into Inia's origin / Manuel Ruiz-Garci a; title: Fossil record and the evolutionary history of Iniodea / M.A. Cozzuol; title: Fishery activity impact on the Sotalia populations from the Amazon mouth / Sandra Beltra n-Pedreros and Miguel Petrere; title: Dolphin-fishery interaction : cost-benefit, social-economic and cultural considerations / Sandra Beltra n-Pedreros and Ligia Amaral Filgueiras-Henriques; title: Ethnoecology of Sotalia guianensis (Gervais, 1853) in the Amazon Estuary / Sandra Beltra n-Pedreros, Miguel Petrere and Ligia Amaral Filgueiras-Henriques; title: Molecular ecology and systematics of Sotalia dolphins / H.A. Cunha, da Silva VMF and A.M. Sole -Cava; title: Population structure and phylogeography of Tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia fluviatilis / Susana Caballero ... [et al.]; title: Life history and ecology of franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei (Cetacea, Pontoporiidae) / Eduardo R. Secchi; title: Review on the threats and conservation status of franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei (Cetacea, Pontoporiidae) / Eduardo R. Secchi; title: Detection of Yangtze finless porpoises in the Poyang Lake mouth area via passive acoustic data-loggers / Songhai Li ... [et al.]; title: Population status and conservation of baiji and the Yangtze finless porpoise / Ding Wang and Xiujiang Zhao; title: Failure of the baiji recovery program : conservation lessons for other freshwater cetaceans / Samuel T. Turvey; title: High level of MHC polymorphism in the baiji and finless porpoise, with special reference to possible convergent adaptation to the freshwater Yangtze River / Shixia Xu ... [et al.]; title: Population status and conservation of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in the Indian subcontinent / R.K. Sinha, Sunil Kumar Verma and Lalji Singh; title: The evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships of the superfamily Platanistoidea / Lawrence G. Barnes, Toshiyuki Kimura and Stephen J. Godfrey.