摘要
Observations were made on one eye from a Longman’s beaked whale Indopacetus pacificus, which was probably one of the least known extant cetaceans. The whale died shortly after swimming aground on the coast in the Nishikata Beach, Sendai-shi, Kagoshima-ken Prefecture, Japan, on July 26, 2002. It was a mature female with body length 6.45 m. This paper documented the basic structural characteristics of her visual organ of the whale in order to better understand this animal.
Observations were made on one eye from a Longman＇s beaked whale Indopacetus pacificus, which was probably one of the least known extant cetaceans. The whale died shortly after swimming aground on the coast in the Nishikata Beach, Sendai-shi, Kagoshima-ken Prefecture, Japan, on July 26, 2002. It was a mature female with body length 6.45 m. This paper documented the basic structural characteristics of her visual organ of the whale in order to better understand this animal.
基金
the National Science Museum,Tokyo 169-0073,Japan
NNSF of China (No.40376042)
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No.Y2007D75)
关键词
鲸鱼
眼睛结构
解剖学
生物研究
Longman＇s beaked whale
lndopacetuspacificus
eye structure
anatomy
morphology
