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Authors

  • Paulo César Simões-Lopes Centro de Pesquisas Subaquáticas - Fundação Barddal
  • Alfredo Ximenez Departamento de Biologia - CCB/UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

The living cetacean species of Santa Catarina coastal waters, Southern Brazil, are listed. Data on entanglement, strangings and sightings for the following 17 species are presented: Pontoporia blainvillei, Phocoena spinipinnis, Steno bredanensis, Sotalia fluviatilis, Delphinus delphis, Tursiops truncatus, Stenella frontalis, Pseudorca crassidens, Orcinus orca, Grampus griseus, Globicephala melas, Hyperondon planifrons, Mesoplodon densirostris, Physeter macrocephalus, Eubalaena australis, Balaenoptera borealis and B. acutorostrata. Area characteristics, biological aspects, distribution and moviments are presented. Details are given on the material deposited in collections. This study discusses the available information, presents original records and increases the number of know specimens of several species.

Author Biography

Paulo César Simões-Lopes, Centro de Pesquisas Subaquáticas - Fundação Barddal

Possui Graduação (Licenciado) em Ciências Biológicas - Habilitação em Biologia - pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e Doutorado em Zoologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Atualmente, é professor Associado III do Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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Published

1993-01-01

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (1993)

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