September 2000 SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE (Globicephala macrorhynchus): Western North Atlantic Stock

There are two species of pilot whales in the Western Atlantic: the Atlantic or long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas, and the short-finned pilot whale, G. macrorhynchus. These species are difficult to identify to the species level at sea; therefore, some of the descriptive material below refer...

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Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.5781
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao2000whps-wn.pdf