Māori names for marine mammals: nga ingoa o ‘nga tamariki o Tinirau’: Rhys Richards: Tuhinga 19

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Māori names for marine mammals: nga ingoa o ‘nga tamariki o Tinirau’: Rhys Richards: Tuhinga 19

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Tuhinga 19: 1-6 ABSTRACT: The first Polynesians to reach New Zealand found several species of sea mammals that do not occur, or occur only rarely, elsewherein Polynesia. Some of the names that Māori established for marine mammals, and for some other animals and plants, varied from place to place. Today, there remain more names than animals, and many names are not very specific. This paper records the range of Māori names applied to marine mammals, and notes that, with the trend towards consis...

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2008

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Rhys Richards

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/document/3032

Related subjects

Māori / Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 / Eubalaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 / Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) / Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 / Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 / Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) / Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) / Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) / Cephalorhynchus hectori (van Beneden, 1881) / Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 / Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson, 1828) / Phocarctos hookeri (Gray, 1844) / Hydrurga leptonyx (Blainville, 1820) / Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)

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