Author: Fischer, P.
Title: Mémoire sur les Cétacés du genre Ziphius Cuvier.
Description: Paris: Librairie des Science Naturelles, 1867. First edition Pp. 40, 1 full page lithographic plate. Original printed pale green wrappers, folio. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Historie Naturelle de Paris, tome 3. The genus Ziphius is known as the beaked whale or goose-beaked whale. Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales. Pages mostly unopened, a near fine copy..

Keywords: Whales whaling Cetacean marine mammals mammalogy Ziphius Cuvier's beaked whale


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