Table of Contents
Contributors; Foreword; The Mammal Research Institute; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Map of the subregion; The cetacean environment off southern Africa Isabelle Ansorge and Johann Lutjeharms; The South African species gate William Perrin; A classification of living cetacea; Keys to the whales, dolphins and porpoise of the region; Anatomy of cetacean skulls; Species accounts; BALAENIDAE: Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis; NEOBALAENIDAE: Pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata; BALAENOPTERIDAE: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae; Antarctic minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis; Dwarf minke whale, B. acutorostrata subsp.; Bryde's whale, B. brydei; Sei whale, B. borealis; Fin whale, B. physalus; Blue whale, B. musculus; PHYSETERIDAE: Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus; KOGIIDAE: Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps; Dwarf sperm whale, K. sima; ZIPHIIDAE: Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris; Arnoux's beaked whale, Berardius arnuxii; Shepherd's beaked whale, Tasmacetus shepherdi; Longman's beaked whale, Indopacetus pacificus; Southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons; Hector's beaked whale, Mesoplodon hectori; True's beaked whale, M. mirus; Gervais' beaked whale, M. europaeus; Gray's beaked whale, M. grayi; Andrews' beaked whale, M. bowdoini; Layard's beaked whale, M. layardii; Blainville's beaked whale, M. densirostris; Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, M. ginkgodens; DELPHINIDAE: Heaviside's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii; Commerson's dolphin, C. commersonii; Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis; Atlantic humpback dolphin, Sousa teuszi; Indian humpback dolphin, S. chinensis; Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncates; Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin, T. aduncus; Pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuate; Atlantic spotted dolphin, S. frontalis; Spinner dolphin, S. longirostris; Clymene dolphin, S. clymene; Striped dolphin, S. coeruleoalba; Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis; Long-beaked common dolphin, D. capensis; Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei; Dusky dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus; Hourglass dolphin, L. cruciger; Southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii; Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus; Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra; Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuate; False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens; Killer whale, Orcinus orca; Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas; Short-finned pilot whale, G. macrorhynchus; PHOCOENIDAE: Spectacled porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica; Bibliography; Glossary; Photographic acknowledgements; Index; List of subscribers.
