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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Graïc, Jean‐Marie
• Mazzariol, Sandro
• Casalone, Cristina
• Petrella, Antonio
• Gili, Claudia
• Gerussi, Tommaso
• Orekhova, Ksenia
• Centelleghe, Cinzia
• Cozzi, Bruno

Titel

Report on the brain of the monk seal (Monachus monachus, Hermann, 1779)

Ist Teil von

• Anatomia, histologia, embryologia, 2024-01, Vol.53 (1), p.e12986-n/a

Ort / Verlag

Germany: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus, Hermann, 1779) is an endangered species of pinniped endemic to few areas of the Mediterranean Sea. Extensive hunting and poaching over the last two centuries have rendered it a rare sight, scattered mainly in the Aegean Sea and the western coast of North Africa. In a rare event, a female monk seal calf stranded and died in southern Italy (Brindisi, Puglia). During due necropsy, the brain was extracted and fixed. The present report is the first of a monk seal brain. The features reported are remarkably typical of a true seal brain, with some specific characteristics. The brain cortical circonvolutions, main fissures and the external parts are described, and an EQ was calculated. Overall, this carnivore adapted to aquatic life shares some aspects of its neuroanatomy and physiology with other seemingly distant aquatic mammals.