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The structures of eye and surrounding tissues of Longman’s beaked whale, Indopacetus pacificus

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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.

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  1. Ocean College, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China

    Qian Zhu  (祝茜) & Xiang Li  (李响)

  2. Department of Zoology, National Science Museum, 3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0073, Japan

    Tadasu K. Yamada  (山田格)

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Supported by the National Science Museum, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan; NNSF of China (No. 40376042) and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. Y2007D75)

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Zhu, Q., Yamada, T.K. & Li, X. The structures of eye and surrounding tissues of Longman’s beaked whale, Indopacetus pacificus . Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 26, 219–221 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-008-0219-9

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