Cetacean strandings on the coast of Ceará, North-eastern Brazil (19922005)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1083-1090

  Meirelles, Ana Carolina O ^a   Monteiro Neto, Cassiano ^b   Martins, Aline M A ^a   Costa, Alexandra F ^a,c   Barros, Helen M D R ^a   Alves, Maria Danise O ^a  

^a Associão de Pesquisa e Preservacão de Ecossistemas AquáticosAQUASIS   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cear; Cetacean strandings; Incidental capture; North eastern Brazil

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; COASTAL ZONE; SEASONALITY; STRANDING;

BRAZIL; CEARA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BALAENOPTERA BONAERENSIS; BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; KOGIA SIMUS; KOGIIDAE; LAGENODELPHIS HOSEI; MESOPLODON EUROPAEUS; ORCINUS ORCA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS; SOTALIA GUIANENSIS; STENO; STENO BREDANENSIS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 69749121384     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409002215     Document Type: Article

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