Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

By T. Jefferson, M. Webber, R. Pitman. 2007

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Whales from space: Four mysticete species described using new VHR satellite imagery (2018, methodology): “The average body length of fin whales was below its known size range (Shirihai and Jarrett 2006, Jefferson et al. 2015).”
Distribution, abundance, and individual movements of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in the Pearl River Estuary, China (2010, background): “It ranges extensively from South Africa in the west, along the coastal rim of the Indian Ocean, through the Indo-Malay Archipelago, along the coast of China in the east, and to northern Australia in the south (Jefferson et al. 2008).”