DISTRIBUTION OF CETACEANS IN SEAS SURROUNDING THE CHUKCHI PENINSULA (O Raspredelenii Kitoobraznyky v Moryakh, Omyvayushchikh Chukotskii Poluostrov)

The whales were observed in Chukchi area by the author (1937-1941) and the seamen of the Aleut (1942-1943). It appears that Balaena mysticetus and Delphinapterus dorofeevi migrate north in April-May and south in December. Eschrichtius glaucus, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, B. physalus, Megaptera nodos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikulin, I P
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE BAY SAINT LOUIS MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1969
Subjects:
Biological Oceanography
*ARCTIC REGIONS
*CETACEA
ARCTIC OCEAN
BERING SEA
CLASSIFICATION
DISTRIBUTION
GREENLAND SEA
PERIODIC VARIATIONS
STATISTICAL DATA
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
FOREIGN REPORTS
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Bering Sea
Greenland
aleut
Balaena mysticetus
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Chukchi
Chukchi Peninsula
Greenland Sea
Orca
Orcinus orca
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Summary:The whales were observed in Chukchi area by the author (1937-1941) and the seamen of the Aleut (1942-1943). It appears that Balaena mysticetus and Delphinapterus dorofeevi migrate north in April-May and south in December. Eschrichtius glaucus, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, B. physalus, Megaptera nodosa and Orcinus orca appear off the Chukchi Peninsula in June and remain there until the end of October. Trans. of Tikhookeanskii Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. Izvestiya (USSR) v22 p255-257 1946, by M. Slessers.

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