Marine Mammal Institute

Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Fiedler, P. C.. (2006). Oceanographic influences on seabirds and cetaceans of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4), 360 - 390. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2006.03.013

Pitman, R. L., Aguayo-L, A., & Urban-R, J.. (1987). Observations of an unidentified beaked whale (Mesoplodon sp.) in the eastern tropical Pacific. Marine Mammal Science, 3, 345-352.

Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., Greenfelder, M., Guinet, C., Jorgensen, M., Olson, P. A., et al.. (2011). Observations of a distinctive morphotype of killer whale (Orcinus orca), type D, from subantarctic waters. Polar Biology, 34(2), 303 - 306. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0871-3

Matsuoka, K., Pitman, R. L., & Marquez, F. F. C.. (2005). A note on a pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) sighting in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 7(1), 71-73.

Lauriano, G., Pirotta, E., Joyce, T., Pitman, R. L., Borrell, A., & Panigada, S.. (2020). Movements, diving behaviour and diet of type‐C killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. doi:10.1002/aqc.3371

Towers, J. R., Tixier, P., Ross, K. A., Bennett, J., P Y Arnould, J., Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2019). Movements and dive behaviour of a toothfish-depredating killer and sperm whale. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(1), 298 - 311. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsy118

Durban, J. W., Fearnbach, H., Burrows, D. G., Ylitalo, G. M., & Pitman, R. L.. (2017). Morphological and ecological evidence for two sympatric forms of Type B killer whale around the Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, 40(1), 231 - 236. doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1942-x

Lewallen, E. A., Pitman, R. L., KJARTANSON, S. H. A. W. N. A. L., & Lovejoy, N. R.. (2011). Molecular systematics of flyingfishes (Teleostei: Exocoetidae): evolution in the epipelagic zone. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 102(1), 161 - 174. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01550.x

Foote, A. D., Morin, P. A., Pitman, R. L., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Durban, J. W., van Helden, A., et al.. (2013). Mitogenomic insights into a recently described and rarely observed killer whale morphotype. Polar Biology, 36(10), 1519 - 1523. doi:10.1007/s00300-013-1354-0

LeDuc, R. G., Robertson, K. M., & Pitman, R. L.. (2008). Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters, 4(4), 426 - 429. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0168

Cheng, L., & Pitman, R. L.. (2002). Mass Oviposition and Egg Development of the Ocean-Skater Halobates sobrinus (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Pacific Science, 56(4), 441 - 447. doi:10.1353/psc.2002.0033

Pitman, R. L., Spear, L. B., & Force, M. P.. (1995). The marine birds of Malpelo Island, Colombia. Colonial Waterbirds, 18, 113-119.

Pitman, R. L. (1985). The marine birds of Alijos Rocks, Mexico. Western Birds, 16, 81-92.

Pitman, R. L., Totterdell, J., Wellard, R., Cullen, P., & de Boer, M.. (2019). Long in the tooth: Biological observations from at-sea sightings of strap-toothed beaked whales (Mesoplodon layardii ). Marine Mammal Science, 35(3), 1141 - 1161. doi:10.1111/mms.12575

Weimerskirch, H., Le Corre, M., Bost, C. A., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Charpy, L.. (2009). L’avifaune et l’écologie des oiseaux marin. Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d’un microcosme océanique, 381-392.

MacLeod, C., Perrin, W. F., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., Ballance, L. T., D’Amico, A., et al.. (2006). Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 7(3), 271-286.

Pitman, R. L., Fearnbach, H., LeDuc, R., Gilpatrick, J. W., Ford, J. K. B., & Ballance, L. T.. (2007). Killer whales preying on a blue whale calf on the Costa Rica Dome: genetics, morphometrics, vocalizations and composition of the group. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management , 9(2), 151-158.

Pitman, R. L., O’Sullivan, S., & Mase, B.. (2003). Killer whales (Orcinus orca) attack a school of pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals, 29(3), 321-324.

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Mesnick, S. L., & Chivers, S. J.. (2001). Killer whale predation on sperm whales: observations and implications. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):494-507, 17(3), 494-507.

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2010). Killer whale predation on penguins in Antarctica. Polar Biology, 33(11), 1589 - 1594. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0853-5

Pitman, R. L., & Dutton, P. H.. (2004). Killer Whale Predation on a Leatherback Turtle in the Northeast Pacific. Pacific Science, 58(3), 497 - 498. doi:10.1353/psc.2004.0034

Gualtieri, D., & Pitman, R. L.. (2019). Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Predation on a Gervais’ Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Mammals, 45(2), 244 - 245. doi:10.1578/AM.45.2.2019.244

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C. A.. (2012). Incidence of Wing Deformities (‘Angel Wing’) Among Masked Boobies at Clipperton Island: Life History Consequences and Insight into Etiology. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124(3), 597 - 602. doi:10.1676/11-208.1

Frazier, J. G., Fierstine, H. L., Beavers, S. C., Achaval, F., Suganuma, H., Pitman, R. L., et al.. (1994). Impalement of marine turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia: Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) by billfishes (Osteichthyes, Perciformes: Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 39, 85-96.

Pitman, R. L., Deecke, V. B., Gabriele, C. M., Srinivasan, M., Black, N., Denkinger, J., et al.. (2017). Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?. Marine Mammal Science, 33(1), 7 - 58. doi:10.1111/mms.12343