Revised 01/15/2011 FALSE KILLER WHALE (Pseudorca crassidens): American Samoa Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Samoa (this report; Pacific; Reeves; Line Islands; Killer Whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.233.6650; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2010whfk-as.pdf

False killer whales are found worldwide mainly in tropical and warm-temperate waters (Stacey et al. 1994). The species is welldocumented throughout the tropical and sub-tropical south Pacific, from Papua New Guinea and Australia to the line islands (Reeves et al. 1999). The species has been taken in...