Stomach contents of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas edwardii) mass-stranded on the Argentine Patagonian coast in 2009
- Chalcobsky, Bárbara Ailen
- Garcia, Nestor Anibal
- Coscarella, Mariano Alberto
- Crespo, Enrique Alberto
DOIAbstract
Pilot whales have a cosmopolitan distribution (Nores & Pérez, 1988). The genus Globicephala includes both the short-finned pilot whale, G. macrorhynchus, which is distributed tropically and subtropically, and long-finned pilot whale, G. melas, which comprises two subspecies with antitropical distribution, mainly in temperate and cold-temperate waters along the continental slope (Olson, 2018). These long-finned pilot whale subspecies are G. melas melas in the North Atlantic Ocean and G. melas edwardii in all Southern oceans between 30°S and the Antarctic Convergence, sometimes to 65°S or farther (Bernard & Reilly, 1999; Kasamatsu & Joyce, 1995). In South America, G. m. edwardii has been sighted or found stranded from southern Brazil to Tierr...
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