RARE MARINE MAMMAL BOOKS AVAILABLE
   ¡VIVAVaquita! is a non-profit organization dedicated to working to help save the vaquita from extinction.  All funds raised are actively used for research and conservation work on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s most endangered marine mammal species.  The global population of this species now numbers less than 15 individuals and is nearing extinction. Visit our website at www.vivavaquita.org for more details. 
   ¡VIVAVaquita! has hundreds of marine mammal books, reprints, monographs, and journals that are available for a donation to the organization.  Below is a sample of some of the rarer items we have (price listed is suggested donation, shipping is extra), but there are many, many more and suggested donation amounts range from US$1-150.  For a list of additional books available (and photos), please contact us. For more info, or to order books, please contact Tom Jefferson at  sclymene@aol.com.  HC = hardcover, PB = paperback/soft wrappers.
 
Bessesen, B. 2018. Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez. Island Press.  NEW.  HC.  $15.
 
Delyamure, S. L. 1968. Helminthofauna of Marine Mammals (Ecology and Phylogeny). Israel Program for Scientific Translations.  PB.  $10.
 
FAO. 1978. Mammals in the seas: Volume I. Report of the FAO Advisory Committee on Marine Resources Research.  FAO of the United Nations.  HC.  $9.
 
FAO. 1979. Mammals in the seas: Volume II. Pinniped species summaries and report on sirenians.  FAO of the United Nations.  HC. $9.
 
Fay, F. H. 1982. Ecology and biology of the Pacific walrus, Odobenus rosmarus divergens Illiger. North American Fauna 74:279 pp.  PB.  $15.
 
Gaskin, D. E. 1972. Whales, Dolphins, and Seals, With Special Reference to the New Zealand Region. Heineman Educational Books.  Dust jacket damaged, but book in good condition.  HC.  $9.
 
Gaskin, D. E. 1982. The Ecology of Whales and Dolphins. Heinemann, London.  PB.  $7.
 
Goode, G. B. 1887. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Section III – Fisheries of North America (including marine mammal sections).  Government Printing Office.  HC.  $35.
 
Hawley, F. 1958. Whales and Whaling in Japan (offprint of pp. 51-102, excerpts on original rare paper). Kyoto.  HC.  51 pp.  $35.
 
Howell, A. B. 1927. Contribution to the anatomy of the Chinese finless porpoise, Neemeris phocaenoides. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70:1-43.  PB.  $3.
 
Jefferson, T. A., S. Leatherwood and M. A. Webber. 1993. Marine Mammals of the World: FAO Species Identification Guide. United Nation Environment Programme and Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN.  PB.  $25.
 
Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. 2015. Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification. Academic Press/Elsevier.  NEW.  HC.  $52.
 
Kaiser, H. E. 1974. Morphology of the Sirenia. A Macroscopic and X-ray Atlas of the Osteology of Recent Species. S. Karger, Basel.   NEW.  HC (in plastic wrap).  HC.  $28.
 
Kleinenberg, S. E., A. V. Yablokov, B. M. Belkovich and M. N. Tarasevich. 1964. Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas): Investigation of the Species. Israel Program for Scientific Translations.  HC.  $22.
 
Klinowska, M. 1991. Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.  HC.  $10.
 
Lilljeborg, W. 1867. On two subfossil whales discovered in Sweden. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsalla. [3] 6(2):1-48.  PB.  $9.
 
Miller, G. S. and R. Kellogg. 1955. List of North American recent mammals. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 205:954 pp.  HC.  $10.
 
Mitchell, E. 1965. History of research at Shark Tooth Hill. Kern County Historical Society.  HC.  $8.
 
Mitchell, E. (ed). 1975. Review of biology and fisheries for smaller cetaceans. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 32(7): 879-1242.   Special issue of journal on dolphins, porpoises, and small whales.  PB.  $9.
 
Mitchell, E. D. 1975. Porpoise, dolphin and small whale fisheries of the world. IUCN Monograph 3:129 pp.  PB.  $7.
 
Moore, J. C. 1968. Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys. Fieldiana Zoology 53:209-298.  PB.  $7.
 
Perrin, W. F. 1975. Variation and taxonomy of spotted and spinner porpoise (genus Stenella) in the eastern tropical Pacific and Hawaii. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 21:206 pp.  PB.  $14.
 
Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4:231 pp.  NEW.  $7.
 
Ridgway, S. H. 1972. Mammals of the Sea: Biology and Medicine. Pages 812 pp. Charles C. Thomas.  HC, mint condition.  $120.
 
Ridgway, S. H. and R. Harrison (eds). 1994. Handbook of Marine Mammals, Vol. 5: The First Book of Dolphins. 416 pp. Academic Press.  NEW, HC.  $110.
 
Risting, S. 1928. Whales and whale foetuses. Rapports et Proces-Verbaux des Reunions 50:122 pp.  PB.  $9.
 
Ronald, K. and A. W. Mansfield (eds). 1975. Biology of the Seal: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Guelph 14-17 August 1972. 557 pp. Rapports et Proces-Verbaux de Reunions.  PB.  $8.
 
Scheffer, V. B. and J. W. Slipp. 1948. The whales and dolphins of Washington State, with a key to the cetaceans of the west coast of North America. American Midland Naturalist 39:257-337.  PB.  $8.
 
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute. Vols. 24-26 hardbound in buckram, plus separate issues of vols. 26, 29, 30, 32, and 33.  $28 for hardbound set, or $10/loose issue.
 
Sergeant, D. E. 1962. The biology of the pilot or pothead whale Globicephala melaena (Traill) in Newfoundland waters. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 132:84 pp.  PB.  $10.
 
True, F. W. 1904. Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those Occurring in European Waters with Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.  First edition, pages in fine condition, but removed from binding.  $38.
 
True, F. W. 1910. An account of the beaked whales of the family Ziphiidae in the collection of the United States National Museum, with remarks on some species in other American museums. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 73:42 pp. + plates.  PB.  $35.
 
Wursig, B., T. A. Jefferson and D. J. Schmidly. 2000. The Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press.  NEW.  HC.  $6.
 
Zhou, K. and Zhang Xingduan. 1991. Baiji: The Yangtze River Dolphin and Other Endangered Animals of China. Stonewall Press.  NEW.  HC.  $4.