A whale of a new species

Authors

Katherine Ralls
Robert L. Brownell Jr., NOAAFollow

Date of this Version

4-18-1991

Comments

Published in NATURE - VOL 350 - 18 APRIL 1991.

Abstract

Although four new species of whale have been identified since 1937, the absence of new ones for the past 28 years might be taken to mean that they had finally all been dis- covered. Not so - a new species of beaked whale, Mesoplodonperuvianus, is described by J. C. Reyes and colleagues in the latest issue of Marine Mammal Science.