Revised 12/15/2000 FALSE KILLER WHALE (Pseudorca crassidens): Hawaiian Stock

False killer whales are found worldwide mainly in tropical and warm-temperate waters (Stacey et al. 1994). In the North Pacific, this species is well known from southern Japan, Hawaii, and the eastern tropical Pacific. It occurs around all the main Hawaiian Islands, but its presence around the North...

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Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Pacific
Killer Whale
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.7007
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2000whfk-hi.pdf
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Summary:False killer whales are found worldwide mainly in tropical and warm-temperate waters (Stacey et al. 1994). In the North Pacific, this species is well known from southern Japan, Hawaii, and the eastern tropical Pacific. It occurs around all the main Hawaiian Islands, but its presence around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands has not yet been established (Nitta and Henderson 1993). Recent sighting locations around the main Hawaiian

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