| View from above. The dorsal fin was absent or not visible anymore |
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Very dead indeed,
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| View from the right side of the head. The dark spot has been the right eye. The lowe jaw shows a strange curve downwards. Tere has been some discussion about the tooth in the upper jaw. Is it really a tooth? |
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| There has been some discussion on the species. Several clues (form of the flippers) were leeding to a Pseudorca Crassidens, but to my opinion the animal was too long for this species. Gianna Minton of Whalecoast Oman has looked for the remains, but only found the remains of a Ps. crassidens on bout the same spot. Another possible species could be Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris). | |
Pseudorca crassidensFalse Killer Whale / Zwarte zwaardvis A skelleton on the flats of Barr al Hikman with many thanks to C. Smeets of Naturalis in Leiden for identification |
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| The flats of Bar al Hikman |  |
| be careful! |
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| totall length ca. 5 m |
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| an enlarged part of the photo above |  |
| the skull with two teeth |
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| the skull from above |  |
| same picture from above, enlarged jaw with two teeth |  |
| upper and lower jaw |
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Sousa chinensisIndo-pacific humpback dolphin of Chineese witte dolfijn |
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| The remains of an Indo-pacific humpback Dolphin on the beach east of the Wahibi Sands |
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