Marine Mammal Institute

Zhao, X., Barlow, J., Taylor, B. L., Pitman, R. L., Wang, K., Wei, Z., et al.. (2008). Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China. Biological Conservation, 141(12), 3006 - 3018. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.005

Pitman, R. L., Fearnbach, H., & Durban, J. W.. (2018). Abundance and population status of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: evidence for impact by commercial fishing?. Polar Biology, 41(4), 781 - 792. doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2239-4

Fearnbach, H., Durban, J. W., Ellifrit, D. K., & Pitman, R. L.. (2019). Abundance of Type A killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, 42(8), 1477 - 1488. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02534-z

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

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

Dalebout, M. L., Ross, G. J. B., C. Baker, S., Anderson, R. C., Best, P. B., Cockcroft, V. G., et al.. (2003). Appearance, distribution, and genetic distinctiveness of Longman’s Beaked Whale, Indopacetus pacificus. Marine Mammal Science 19(3):421-461, 19(3), 421-461.

Eguchi, T., Gerrodette, T., Pitman, R. L., Seminoff, J. A., & Dutton, P. H.. (2007). At-sea density and abundance estimates of the olive ridley turtle Lepidochelys olivacea in the eastern tropical Pacific. Endangered Species Research, 3, 191 - 203. doi:10.3354/esr003191

Karnovsky, J. J., Spear, L. B., Carter, H. R., Ainley, D. G., Amey, K. D., Ballance, L. T., et al.. (2005). At-sea distribution, abundance and habitat affinities of Xantus’s Murrelets. Marine Ornithology, 33, 89-104.

Everett, W. T., & Pitman, R. L.. (1996). Avian specimens from Rocas Alijos. In Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell expeditions (pp. 359-362). London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Pitman, R. L., & Lynn, S.. (2001). Biological observations of an unidentified mesoplodont whale in the eastern tropical Pacific and probable identity: Mesoplodon peruvianus. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):648-657., 17(3), 648-657.

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

Ballance, L. T., Anderson, R. C., Pitman, R. L., Stafford, K. M., Shaan, A., Waheed, Z., & Jr., R. L. Brownell. (2001). Cetacean sightings around the Republic of the Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(2), 213-218.

Ballance, L. T., & Pitman, R. L.. (1998). Cetaceans of the Western Tropical Indian Ocean: Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Comparisons with Cetacean Communities of Two Other Tropical Ecosystems. Marine Mammal Science, 14(3), 429-459.

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2002). The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin, 114(1), 11-19.

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

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C.. (2005). Clipperton Island: Pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology, 33, 193-194.

Wellard, R., Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., & Erbe, C.. (2020). Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 191228. doi:10.1098/rsos.191228

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

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.. (1990). Daytime Feeding by Leach's Storm-Petrel on a Midwater Fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Condor, 92(2), 524. doi:10.2307/1368253

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

Jefferson, T. A., Pitman, R. L., Leatherwood, S., & Dolar, M. L. L.. (1997). Developmental and sexual variation in the external appearance of Fraser's dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei). Aquatic Mammals, 23, 145-153.

Pitman, R. L., Perryman, W. L., LeRoi, D., & Eilers, E.. (2007). A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(1), 43 - 48. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-118R1.1

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

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Sironi, M., Totterdell, J., Towers, J. R., & Wellard, R.. (2020). Enigmatic megafauna: type D killer whale in the Southern Ocean. Ecology, 101(1). doi:10.1002/ecy.2871