Odontoceti (Toothed whales)!

[Jetoar]

One of the best figures of this animal

[brontodocus]

Great photos, especially the "underwater shot"! However, this is officially a Short-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus (it was even on the bottlecap but I just have the figure without bottlecap, like in your photos). And while it's always necessary to be cautious with the species identification by a manufacturer - especially in this case where two sister species are hard to tell apart - the relative shortness of the flippers and short snout with wide melon do suggest this is G. macrorhynchus instead of G. melas. The faint diagonal stripe from the eye to the dorsal fin also seems to be more common in G. macrorhynchus, too.

[~The Mandarin~]

Great photos, especially the "underwater shot"! However, this is officially a Short-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus (it was even on the bottlecap but I just have the figure without bottlecap, like in your photos). And while it's always necessary to be cautious with the species identification by a manufacturer - especially in this case where two sister species are hard to tell apart - the relative shortness of the flippers and short snout with wide melon do suggest this is G. macrorhynchus instead of G. melas. The faint diagonal stripe from the eye to the dorsal fin also seems to be more common in G. macrorhynchus, too.

Thanks for pointing that out! I wasn't too sure which pilot whale it was - just guessing. I better update my post now!

[~The Mandarin~]

Second in the Ogasawara series is a pair of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus). The dolphins each measure approximately 7cm in length (1:50 scale). There appears to be a misprint on the label on the base which reads Tursiops truncatus instead of Tursiops aduncus even though the official announcement and the mini info-sheet that comes with the set says the latter.

[widukind]

A interesting subspecie for me 

[Jetoar]

One of the best figures of this specie of dolphin  .

[~The Mandarin~]

This is my favourite piece from the Ogasawara set. I have a soft spot for dolphins! 

[Battatitan]

Amazing figure: one which captures the beauty and jollity of the bottlenose perfectly 

[brontodocus]

I guess they simply wrote "Tursiops truncatus" because T. aduncus has so long been lumped together with it. But the spots on the belly do suggest T. aduncus, indeed.

[Therizinosaurus]

It's an awesome figure! It was not easy for me to get mine, once it disappeared from online stores and I couldn't locate one on ebay for quite a long time... Until a friend from Spain helped me out who found some old stock in a store... it was the last figure I needed to complete the series, and actually the hardest to get. Phew!

I'm in the same situation, currently the only one I'm missing

[brontodocus]

Walk-around of the Aquameridian Part 1 Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin or Chinese White Dolphin, Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765). This is a true member of Delphinidae and should not be confused with the limnic (and probably extinct) Baiji or Chinese River Dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer. Chinese White Dolphins are mostly coastal and estuarine dwellers and IUCN lists the species as "Near Threatened". However, since recent molecular data has suggested that Sousa chinensis might actually consist of two or more distinct species each of the resulting ones might be more endangered than currently thought. The adult figure is 71 mm long and the juvenile 38 mm, so the scale would be around 1:28 - 1:35 (since male individuals get bigger, the scale could be up to 1:45 if it weren't for the juvenile which is more likely to stay with its mother, I guess). The human figure (diver from Safari Ltd Coral Reef Toob) is approx. 1:32 - 1:35 scale.
The adult dolphin figure is very similar in scale and size to the Playvisions Atlantic Humpback Dolphin, Sousa teuszii, which is the only other Humpback Dolphin figure I'm currently aware of.
Here's a link to the Chinese White dolphin at its home at Aquameridian Limited: http://aqua-meridian.com/en/potostackgallery/product-part-1/clickin_cwdolphin-cropped_chin-2/














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[Jetoar]

Wonderful walk around Brontodocus. I like the combinations of juvenile and adult of this figures, the same that Napoleon fish  .

[widukind]

My favourite of this serie, i am happy that i also have this figurine(s) 

[brontodocus]

Papo is expanding their range of marine animals with six new figures for 2014, one of them being a Beluga Whale. We know Papo for their love for detail and sometimes a little cartoonish facial expressions but in the case of this figure I'm actually quite happy about how likeable and cheeky the facial expression came out. So here's the walk-around of the Papo Marine Life 56012 Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776). Total length is 163 mm, so the scale is something between approx. 1:19 and 1:33. The human figure (diver from Safari Ltd Coral Reef Toob) is approx. 1:32 - 1:35 scale. While conservation dependent, the world wide population may still be well over 150,000 individuals and IUCN downgraded the Beluga Whale in 2012 from "Vulnerable" to "Near Threatened".
















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[Jetoar]

It is really beautiful, I like the sculpture and it will be a gift for my girlfriend  .

[widukind]

Congratulations 

[brontodocus]

Many thanks, Jetoar & widukind! 

[AwkwardNar]

Best beluga in my opinion. Good thing I snagged one for my whale collection.

[brontodocus]

One of the most popular cetaceans and the largest among the Delphinidae, the Orca is a whale practically everybody knows and and so it has been made as a figure countless times and by all major brands (this is currently my 10th orca figure). No wonder Kaiyodo included one in their Aquatales resin line, too, so here is the Kaiyodo Aquatales Polyresin Aquatic animal figure collection Series 2 No. 001 Orca, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758). Total length is 116 mm, so the scale is between approx. 1:44 and 1:84. The human figure (from Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Tyrannosaurs set) is approx. 1:75 scale. Despite being so popular and well-known, the taxonomic status of the Orca is unresolved and it seems that there are actually several different species within the genus Orcinus. This is one of the reasons why IUCN currently cannot give a reliable estimate about the Orca's conservation status and the species is listed as "Data Deficient".












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[Jetoar]

Awesome figure of this aminal. Polyresin figures are high quality figures  .