@article{,

title = {Morphology and distribution of the spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, rough-toothed dolphin, Steno brednanensis and melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra, from waters off the Sultanate of Oman},

author = {Van Waerebeek,K.,Gallagher,M.,Baldwin,R.,Papastavrou,V.,Al-Lawati,S.M.},

year  = {1999},

date = {1999-01-01},

journal = {The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management},

volume = {1},

number = {491},

pages = {167-177},

abstract = {Two previously mis-identified specimens at the Oman Natural History Museum are re-identified as a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin.  Body lengths of adult male spinner dolphins were smaller than any known stock of spinner dolphins except the dwarf forms in Thailand and Australia and skulls were indistinguishable from those of the eastern spinner dolphins (S.l. orientalis).  Two colour morphs of spinner dolphins were observed.  The paper concludes that Oman spinner dolphins should be treated as a discrete population, morphologically distinct from all known spinner dolphin sub-species.},

keywords = {Distribution, Indian Ocean, length, melon-headed whale, morphometrics, Oman, rough-toothed dolphin, Spinner dolphin, Stock identity, taxonomy},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}