Scheffer, Victor B.

9 publications

Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1942A list of the marine mammals of the West Coast of North America.
Murrelet 23(2): 42-47. May-Aug. 1942.
—Lists Hydrodamalis gigas as "exterminated in 1768" (46).
Scheffer, Victor B.; Rice, Dale W. (detail)
1963A list of the marine mammals of the world.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv. Special Sci. Rept. Fisheries No. 431: 1-12.
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Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1967Marine mammals and the history of Bering Strait. In: D. M. Hopkins (ed.), The Bering Land Bridge.
Stanford Univ. Press: 350-363.
—See also W.S. Laughlin (1967) and D.M. Hopkins (1967). Sirs., 358-361.
Rice, Dale W.; Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1968A list of the marine mammals of the world.
U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rept. Fisheries No. 579: iii + 16. Dec. 1968.
—Summarizes the distribution of the living sirs. (5-6) and gives their common synonyms (12). Includes a bibliography by Ethel I. Todd (12-16).
Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1970Growth layers in a dugong tooth.
Jour. Mamm. 51(1): 187-190. 2 figs. Feb. 20, 1970.
—Discusses the dugong dentition and the size of the tusks; suggests, on the basis of a study of a sectioned tusk, that finer growth layers in the dentin represent days, coarser layers lunar months. The calculated age, however, differs depending on which side of the tusk is used.
Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1972The weight of the Steller sea cow.
Jour. Mamm. 53(4): 912-914. 1 tab. Nov. 30, 1972.
—Based on Steller's measurements and estimates and on scale models, calculates the minimum size of the largest sea cow as 8 m or 25 feet in length and 10 metric tons in weight.
Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1973The last days of the sea cow.
Smithsonian 3(10): 64-67. 3 figs. Jan. 1973.
—Fictional account of a Russian boy's encounter with the last individual of Hydrodamalis, illustrated with two artist's reconstructions of the sea cow. Also relates a story, told to Scheffer by L. Stejneger, of how the latter acquired sea cow bones by bribing Russian workmen on Bering Island. Finally, summarizes recent studies on Hydrodamalis.
Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1976A natural history of marine mammals.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1-157.
—Rev.: Sci. Amer. 237(4): 31-32, Oct. 1977.
Scheffer, Victor B. (detail)
1981Newborn size in marine mammals.
Pacif. Discovery 34(3): 19-26. 1 tab. 12 figs.
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