Marine Mammal Institute

Krahn, M. M., Pitman, R. L., Burrows, D. G., Herman, D. P., & Pearce, R. W.. (2008). Use of chemical tracers to assess diet and persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic Type C killer whales. Marine Mammal Science, 24(3), 643 - 663. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00213.x

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Book review: Albatross. Their world, their ways. Wilson Bulletin, 121, 217-218.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed., pp. 600 - 602). San Diego: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373553-9.00140-1

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.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Mesoplodont whales (Mesoplodon spp.). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed., pp. 721 - 726). San Diego: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373553-9.00167-X

Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20(7), 908 - 916. doi:10.1101/gr.102954.109

Feeney, R. F., Lavenberg, R. J., & Pitman, R. L.. (2010). Description of a complete Liopropoma larva from the Gulf of California (Mexico) and its comparison with L. fasciatum and L. longilepis (Actinopterygii: Epinephelidae). Ciencias Marinas, 36(1), 83 - 89. doi:10.7773/cm.v36i1.1674

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

Durban, J., Ellifrit, D., Dahlheim, M., Waite, J., Matkin, C., Barrett-Lennard, L., et al.. (2010). Photographic mark-recapture analysis of clustered mammal-eating killer whales around the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Marine Biology, 157(7), 1591 - 1604. doi:10.1007/s00227-010-1432-6

Wade, P. R., Kennedy, A., LeDuc, R., Barlow, J., Carretta, J., Shelden, K., et al.. (2010). The world's smallest whale population?. Biology Letters, 7(1), 83 - 85. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0477

Durban, J. W., & Pitman, R. L.. (2011). Antarctic killer whales make rapid, round-trip movements to subtropical waters: evidence for physiological maintenance migrations?. Biology Letters, 8(2), 274 - 277. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0875

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

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

Foote, A. D., Morin, P. A., Durban, J. W., Pitman, R. L., Wade, P., Willerslev, E., et al.. (2011). Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome. Biology Letters, 7(1), 116 - 118. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0638

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2012). Cooperative hunting behavior, prey selectivity and prey handling by pack ice killer whales (Orcinus orca), type B, in Antarctic Peninsula waters. Marine Mammal Science, 28(1), 16 - 36. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00453.x

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

Pitman, R. L. (2013). Clipperton Island. In Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia (pp. 471-473). Ipswich, MA: Salem Press.

Fiedler, P. C., Redfern, J. V., Van Noord, J., Hall, C., Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2013). Effects of a tropical cyclone on a pelagic ecosystem from the physical environment to top predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484, 1 - 16. doi:10.3354/meps10378

Van Noord, J. E., Lewallen, E. A., & Pitman, R. L.. (2013). Flyingfish feeding ecology in the eastern Pacific: prey partitioning within a speciose epipelagic community. Journal of Fish Biology, 83(2), 326 - 342. doi:10.1111/jfb.12173

Parsons, K. M., Durban, J. W., Burdin, A. M., Burkanov, V. N., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., et al.. (2013). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Differentiation among Killer Whales in the Northern North Pacific. Journal of Heredity, 104(6), 737 - 754. doi:10.1093/jhered/est037

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

Pitman, R. L. (2013). Review: Marine Mammal Species of India. Marine Mammal Science, 29(4), 777 - 779. doi:10.1111/mms.12061

Priddel, D., Carlile, N., Portelli, D., Kim, Y., O'Neill, L., Bretagnolle, V., et al.. (2014). Pelagic distribution of Gould's Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera): linking shipboard and onshore observations with remote-tracking data. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 114(4), 360 - 370. doi:10.1071/MU14021

Pitman, R. L. (2015). Antarctic orcas. In Visual Encyclopedia of Orca (pp. 126-135). Yokohama, Japan: Sphere Books.

Pitman, R. L. (2015). Killer whale. In Whales, dolphins and porpoises (pp. 150-151). East Sussex, UK: Ivy Press.