Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises
Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1
- 1st Edition - December 8, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Thomas Allen Jefferson
- Editor: Thomas Allen Jefferson
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 7 4 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 7 4 7 - 1
Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume One, the first volume in the Handbook of Marine Mammals series, covers some of the worl… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCoastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume One, the first volume in the Handbook of Marine Mammals series, covers some of the world's most beautiful, intelligent, and highly adapted mammals that inhabit our seas and oceans. As our knowledge of marine mammals grows, the need exists for a reliable and complete reference to the ecology and biology of these fascinating creatures. Scientists, conservationists, and informed laypersons will find books in this series to be a definitive review of all the world's living whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, sea lions, sea cows, and marine otters and bears.
This volume consists of species review chapters written by leading global experts on a variety of coastal marine species of dolphins and porpoises. Each chapter includes a description of the species followed by sections on distribution and abundance, anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, reproduction, parasites, diseases, and the impacts of human activities on the species.
- Provides in-depth reviews of bottlenose, humpback, and other coastal dolphins, as well as the closely related porpoises
- Addresses the evolution, anatomy, ecology, distribution, and behavior of these marine mammal species
- Features numerous photos of live and specimen animals, skulls, and anatomical details, along with distribution maps
Researchers and practitioners in marine biology, marine conservation, and marine mammal studies. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in marine biology, conservation, and zoological disciplines
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Dr. Sam Houston Ridgway, 1936–2022
- Handbook of marine mammals
- In memoriam
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais and Deville in Gervais, 1853)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Other
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other information
- Chapter 2. Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis (Van Bénéden, 1864)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other impacts
- Chapter 3. Indo-Pacific and Australian humpback dolphins Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) and S. sahulensis Jefferson and Rosenbaum, 2014
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Epimeletic behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Incidental killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Cumulative impacts
- Chapter 4. Atlantic and Indian Ocean humpback dolphins Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892) and S. plumbea (Cuvier, 1829)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Cumulative impacts
- Chapter 5. Common and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) and T. erebennus (Cope, 1865)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Cumulative impacts
- Chapter 6. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Other
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Other
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other impacts
- Chapter 7. Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus (Cuvier, 1812)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other impacts
- Chapter 8. Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 9. Chilean dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia (Gray, 1846)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 10. Heaviside's dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 11. Hector's dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori (Van Beneden, 1881)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 12. Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other impacts
- Chapter 13. Vaquita Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common name
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Other threats
- Epilogue
- Chapter 14. Spectacled porpoise Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 15. Burmeister's porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 16. Finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides (Cuvier, 1829) and N. asiaeorientalis (Pilleri & Gihr, 1972)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Indirect killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Chapter 17. Dall's porpoise Phocoenoides dalli (True, 1885)
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Scientific names
- Common names
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Range
- Movements
- Habitat
- External characteristics
- Coloration
- Size and shape
- Weight
- Internal anatomy
- Skull
- Postcranial skeleton
- Soft anatomy
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Thermoregulation and energetics
- Senses
- Life history and population dynamics
- Abundance and trends
- Growth and reproduction
- Natural mortality
- Parasites and pathology
- Parasites and commensals
- Disease
- Behavior
- Social organization
- Interspecies associations
- Locomotion and diving
- Food and feeding
- Reproductive behavior
- Acoustic behavior
- Live maintenance
- Human impacts
- Direct hunting
- Incidental killing/by-catch
- Contaminants
- Habitat loss and climate change
- Behavioral disturbance
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 8, 2024
- No. of pages (Hardback): 666
- No. of pages (eBook): 600
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443137464
- eBook ISBN: 9780443137471
TJ
Thomas Allen Jefferson
Dr. Thomas Jefferson’s main interests are the development of marine mammal identification aids, and the systematics and population ecology of the more poorly known species of dolphins and porpoises. His work since receiving his PhD in 1983 has been related to conservation and management of marine mammals threatened by human activities. His current primary research focuses on the conservation biology of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) and finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) populations in Hong Kong and surrounding waters. I am also working on other projects looking at the systematics and ecology of these species throughout their ranges. In addition, I am involved in many other projects, including those on the conservation of the critically endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) and on the taxonomy and population ecology of common dolphins (Delphinus spp.)
Affiliations and expertise
Clymene Enterprises, CA, USATJ
Thomas Allen Jefferson
Dr. Thomas Jefferson’s main interests are the development of marine mammal identification aids, and the systematics and population ecology of the more poorly known species of dolphins and porpoises. His work since receiving his PhD in 1983 has been related to conservation and management of marine mammals threatened by human activities. His current primary research focuses on the conservation biology of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) and finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) populations in Hong Kong and surrounding waters. I am also working on other projects looking at the systematics and ecology of these species throughout their ranges. In addition, I am involved in many other projects, including those on the conservation of the critically endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) and on the taxonomy and population ecology of common dolphins (Delphinus spp.)
Affiliations and expertise
Clymene Enterprises, CA, USARead Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises on ScienceDirect