Report on blue whales sightings (balaenoptera musculus linnaeus, 1758) in a narrow fjord during autumn-winter in southern Chile

Spixiana

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Försterra, Günter ^a   Häussermann, Verena ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 84871818176     PISSN: 03418391     EISSN: 01777424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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