Quelques Donnees Nouvelles Sur Un Cetace Rare Sur Les Cotes D’europe : Le Cachalot a Tete Courte, Kogia Breviceps (Blainville, 1838)

Duguy, R.

doi:10.1515/mamm.1966.30.2.259

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“…But the description of the specimen given by Sobrino suggests that perhaps the animal was not B. borealis. Normally, sei whales do not exceed 15m when adults (Fräser, 1969 andDuguy and, while this specimen measured more than 16 m total length. The length of the baleens given by Sobrino was 15 to 25 cm more than the usual length (65 cm) of the sei whale baleens (Matthews, 1938).…”

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The Cetaceans of the Spanish Coasts : A Survey

Casinos¹,

Vericad²

1976

Mammalia

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Vingt et une especes de Cetacos froquentent ou sont susceptibles de frequenter les eaux espagnoles.Les connaissances acquises pour chaque espece sont rosumoes et discutees et Γόη donne, pour chaque spocimen connu, quelques donees telles que : la date d'observation ou d'echouage, la longueur totale, le sexe... Dans la discussion finale, on commente la froquence mensuelle des ochouages et des observations et on prend en consideration le role des courants superficiels dans la distribution des especes de C^taces en Moditerranee occidentale.

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“…Fräser (1969) speaks of a specimen stranded in Ireland, as he had already predicted (Fräser and Parker, 1953). There are two references from the Iberian Peninsula, both of them in Portugal, Cascais and Setubal (Duguy, 1966).…”

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The Cetaceans of the Spanish Coasts : A Survey

Casinos¹,

Vericad²

1976

Mammalia

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“…Its distribution is mainly in tropical and warm temperate waters (Mitchell, 1975b). Duguy (1966) lists only eight records of strandings in Europe, five in France, two in Portugal, and one in Holland, between the months of June and December, but mainly in the autumn. Duguy & Robineau (1973) add one further record from France, again from the Atlantic coast, whilst Fraser (1974) provides the first British record, with the stranding of an animal on the coast of Co. Clare, Western Ireland in April 1966.…”

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Cetaceans in British waters

Evans

1980

Mammal Review

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Most information on the distribution, movements and ecology of cetaceans in the N.E. Atlantic have come from whale catches mainly in the early part of this century, and from strandings records collected by the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). With the formation of the Cetacean Group in 1973, a scheme for recording live cetaceans at sea was started. This paper summarizes the results of about two thousand sightings involving nearly 25,000 individual animals between the years 1958– 1978 (but mainly from the last 10 years), and relates them to existing information collected from other sources. Difficulties of identification and potential sources of bias are discussed. Most large cetaceans are present in British waters as part of a latitudinal feeding migration whereas smaller species may be present in the N.E. Atlantic throughout the year with movements being mainly of an offshore‐inshore nature. Some species are clearly very rare probably as a result of over‐exploitation in the last century and early part of this century. These include the Right whale, Blue whale and probably Humpback whale. Other species are rarely recorded because their usual range is some distance from British waters. These include narwhal and White whale (from Arctic waters), Pygmy sperm whale, smaller beaked whales and Euphrosyne dolphin (from warm temperate to tropical waters). The Harbour porpoise is by far the most common and widespread species in British waters, occurring mainly in inshore waters, although it has apparently declined in certain regions (e.g. Southern North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea) in recent years probably as a result of pollution, disturbance and/or over‐exploitation of food resources. Bottle‐nosed and Risso's dolphins are also widely distributed close to the coast, although the latter is restricted to the west and south coasts and the former is associated particularly with some large estuaries. Common dolphins are relatively abundant and widespread, and are more pelagic than the previous three species. White‐sided dolphins have a mainly pelagic distribution centred on the Northern North Sea whilst the White‐sided dolphin has a wider distribution which includes all the western seaboard. Of larger cetaceans, the Killer whale is relatively common particularly on the west coasts and the Pilot whale is locally and seasonally abundant at the north and south ends of Britain and Ireland where they probably represent distinct populations. The Bottlenose whale, Minke, Fin and Sei whales are confined to the west and north coasts, all but the Minke whale having a primarily pelagic distribution. Sperm whales although increasingly commonly stranded on British coasts, are rarely sighted in inshore waters. The west coast of Britain and Ireland are the most important regions for cetaceans whereas the Southern North Sea has the smallest number although in previous decades numbers were probably higher. Most cetacean species occur mainly in the summer months, particularly August and September, although some species, e.g. White‐sid...

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“…Pygmy sperm whales are oceanic animals widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans (McAlpine 2002). In the eastern Atlantic, there are records of stranded specimens in Ireland (Berrow and Rogan 1997), the Netherlands (Fraser 1974), France (Duguy 1966, Duguy and Budker 1972), Spain (Penas Patiño and Piñeiro Seage 1989), and Portugal (Sequeira et al 1992, 1996). In the present paper, we also present the first records of this species in Scotland (UK).…”

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PYGMY SPERM WHALES KOGIA BREVICEPS IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC: NEW INFORMATION ON STOMACH CONTENTS AND STRANDINGS

Santos¹,

Pierce²,

López³

et al. 2006

Marine Mammal Science

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Little is known about the feeding ecology of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) in the Northeast Atlantic. Results are presented on the stomach contents of five whales stranded on the Galician coast (NW Spain) between 1995 and 2002 and seven whales stranded on the French Atlantic coast between 1984 and 2001. These results are compared with those obtained from the stomach contents of two pygmy sperm whales (a pregnant female and her calf ) stranded on the Scottish (UK) coast in 1999, the first records of the species in Scotland. In 13 out of 14 cases, food remains consisted almost entirely of cephalopod beaks, although some crustacean and fish remains were also present. In all the Spanish specimens, the identified prey were oceanic species: the cephalopods Histioteuthis reversa, H. bonnellii, Todarodes sagittatus, the viperfish Chauliodus sloani, and the giant mysid Gnatophausia sp. The same cephalopod species were found in the stomachs of the whales stranded in Scotland, although both whales had also consumed neritic cephalopod species such as Rossia macrosoma and other sepiolids. In the French specimens, almost all prey 600 SANTOS ET AL.: PYGMY SPERM WHALES 601 identified were oceanic cephalopods (H. reversa, Brachioteuthis riseii, T. sagittatus, Taonius pavo, etc.), but remains of crustaceans and a neritic squid (Loligo forbesi) were also found. One whale from France had eaten mainly Henslow's swimming crab (Polybius henslowi). Results from the present study are consistent with those found by other authors in the Azores and the Canary Islands in that pygmy sperm whales appear to be mainly teuthophagous, with histioteuthid squids forming an important part of the diet. Strandings records suggest that occurrence of pygmy sperm whales in the NE Atlantic may be seasonal, with most strandings occurring in autumn and winter.

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Quelques Donnees Nouvelles Sur Un Cetace Rare Sur Les Cotes D’europe : Le Cachalot a Tete Courte, Kogia Breviceps (Blainville, 1838)

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The Cetaceans of the Spanish Coasts : A Survey

The Cetaceans of the Spanish Coasts : A Survey

Cetaceans in British waters

PYGMY SPERM WHALES KOGIA BREVICEPS IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC: NEW INFORMATION ON STOMACH CONTENTS AND STRANDINGS

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