Australian Museum Journal Some features in the anatomy and later development of the head of Delphinus delphinus Linné
- Shortform:
- Leighton Kesteven, 1941, Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(1): 59–80
- Author(s):
- Leighton Kesteven, H.
- Year published:
- 1941
- Title:
- Some features in the anatomy and later development of the head of Delphinus delphinus Linné
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 59
- End page:
- 80
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1941.527
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 04 July 1941
- Cover date:
- 04 July 1941
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 29 June 2009
- Reference number:
- 527
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (117kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (3259kb PDF)
Abstract
[No abstract is given for this work, it begins as follows] This part of the work is based on two foetal heads which I received from the New South Wales Fisheries Commission some years ago. The larger of these was converted into a skull by careful dissection, and it has now been extensively disarticulated as the work proceeded. It measured seventy-eight millimetres from tip to occiput. The smaller was decalcified and cut into serial sections along the sagittal plane after straining in alum carmine. This specimen measured ... [etc.]