A Pygmy Blue Whale (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae) in the Inshore Waters of New Caledonia

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dc.contributor.author	Borsa, Philippe	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hoarau, Galice	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-06T05:44:51Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2008-10-06T05:44:51Z	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-10	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Borsa P, Hoarau G. 2004. A pygmy blue whale (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae) in the inshore waters of New Caledonia. Pac Sci 58(4): 579-584.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0030-8870	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2743	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The occurrence of a blue whale is reported for the first time for the New Caledonian archipelago. The whale, a juvenile male in poor condition, entered the shallow inshore waters of the coral reef lagoon (220 19-24' S, 1660 46-52' E) where it spent at least 1 month until it was killed by whaler sharks on 27 January 2002. Live observations, examination of photographic documents, and skull osteology indicated that this was a pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda. Nucleotide sequences of PCR-amplified fragments of its mitochondrial DNA were determined and compared with the few published homologous sequences of North Atlantic blue whales, B. m. musculus, but no obvious differences were apparent.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en-US	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Hawai'i Press	en_US
dc.title	A Pygmy Blue Whale (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae) in the Inshore Waters of New Caledonia	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.type.dcmi	Text	en_US