Author: Schulte, H. von W.
Title: The Skull of Kogia breviceps Blaine.
Description: New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1917. First edition. Pp. 44, 9 full page photo-plates. Original printed gray wrappers, 8vo. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, volume 37, article 17. Kogia breviceps, the pygmy sperm whale, is one of three species of toothed whale in the sperm whale family. Name stamp of J. Donna L. Mayer is stamped on the front wrapper. Wrappers a little browned at edges with a few chips; text and plates are clean; a tight, very good copy..

Keywords: Whales whaling marine mammals mammalogy Cetaceans Cetacea skull anatomy Kogia breviceps pygmy sperm whale toothed whale


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