First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia

On 21 August 2015, four sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758) were seen at a distance of one nautical mile from the port of "El Ketf" (Gulf of Gabes). This is the first record of the species in the southern Tunisian Sea that extends previous knowledge on the sperm whale in t...

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Main Authors: KARAA, Sami, SAADAOUI, Abdessalem, BRADAЇ, Mohamed Nejmeddine
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Published: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR) 2016
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Physeter macrocephalus
Sperm whale
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/cbm.a.91082522
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spelling ftdatacite:10.21411/cbm.a.91082522 2023-05-15T17:59:19+02:00 First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia KARAA, Sami SAADAOUI, Abdessalem BRADAЇ, Mohamed Nejmeddine 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/cbm.a.91082522 http://application.sb-roscoff.fr/cbm/doi/10.21411/CBM.A.91082522 unknown Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR) https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/cbm.i.abb1a849 Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.21411/cbm.a.91082522 https://doi.org/10.21411/cbm.i.abb1a849 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z On 21 August 2015, four sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758) were seen at a distance of one nautical mile from the port of "El Ketf" (Gulf of Gabes). This is the first record of the species in the southern Tunisian Sea that extends previous knowledge on the sperm whale in the Mediterranean, raises queries about the use of southern Mediterranean waters by this species, and reports a defensive behaviour of this species in this region. Text Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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description On 21 August 2015, four sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758) were seen at a distance of one nautical mile from the port of "El Ketf" (Gulf of Gabes). This is the first record of the species in the southern Tunisian Sea that extends previous knowledge on the sperm whale in the Mediterranean, raises queries about the use of southern Mediterranean waters by this species, and reports a defensive behaviour of this species in this region.
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author KARAA, Sami
SAADAOUI, Abdessalem
BRADAЇ, Mohamed Nejmeddine
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SAADAOUI, Abdessalem
BRADAЇ, Mohamed Nejmeddine
First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
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SAADAOUI, Abdessalem
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title First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
title_short First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
title_full First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
title_fullStr First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
title_full_unstemmed First record of live stranded sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia
title_sort first record of live stranded sperm whales physeter macrocephalus in the gulf of gabes, tunisia
publisher Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
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