True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia
The True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus, True 1913) is a poorly known member of the Ziphiidae family. Its distribution in the northern hemisphere is thought to be restricted to the temperate or warm temperate waters of the North Atlantic, while a few stranding records from the southern hemisphere...
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Ziphiidae Cytochrome b mtDNA Genetics Colouration patterns Phenotype North Atlantic Cetacean distribution Canary Islands Azores GC Oceanography QH301 Biology QL Zoology DAS GC QH301 QL Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Martín, Vidal Silva, Monica Edler, Roland Reyes, Cristel Carrillo, Manuel Schiavi, Agustina Morales, Talia García-Ovide, Belen Sanchez-Mora, Anna Garcia-Tavero, Nerea Steiner, Lisa Scheer, Michael Gockel, Roland Walker, Dylan Villa, Enrico Szlama, Petra Eriksson, Ida K. Tejedor, Marisa Perez-Gil, Monica Quaresma, João Bachara, Wojtek Carroll, Emma True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia |
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The True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus, True 1913) is a poorly known member of the Ziphiidae family. Its distribution in the northern hemisphere is thought to be restricted to the temperate or warm temperate waters of the North Atlantic, while a few stranding records from the southern hemisphere suggest a wider and antitropical distribution, extending to waters from the Atlantic coast of Brazil to South Africa, Mozambique, Australia and the Tasman Sea coast of New Zealand. This paper (i) reports the first molecular confirmation of the occurrence of the True’s beaked whale at the southern limit of its distribution recorded in the northeast Atlantic: the Azores and Canary Islands (macaronesian ecoregion); (ii) describes a new colouration for this species using evidence from a whale with molecular species confirmation; and (iii) contributes to the sparse worldwide database of live sightings, including the first underwater video recording of this species and close images of a calf. Species identification was confirmed in two cases using mitochondrial DNA control region and cytochrome b gene markers: a subadult male True’s beaked whale that stranded in El Hierro, Canary Islands, in November 2012, and a subadult male found floating dead near Faial, the Azores, in July 2004. The whale that stranded in the Canary Islands had a clearly delimited white area on its head, extending posteriorly from the tip of the beak to cover the blowhole dorsally and the gular grooves ventrally. This colouration contrasts with previous descriptions for the species and it may be rare, but it exemplifies the variability of the colouration of True’s beaked whales in the North Atlantic, further confirmed here by live sightings data. The recording of several observations of this species in deep but relatively coastal waters off the Azores and the Canary Islands suggests that these archipelagos may be unique locations to study the behaviour of the enigmatic True’s beaked whale. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Martín, Vidal Silva, Monica Edler, Roland Reyes, Cristel Carrillo, Manuel Schiavi, Agustina Morales, Talia García-Ovide, Belen Sanchez-Mora, Anna Garcia-Tavero, Nerea Steiner, Lisa Scheer, Michael Gockel, Roland Walker, Dylan Villa, Enrico Szlama, Petra Eriksson, Ida K. Tejedor, Marisa Perez-Gil, Monica Quaresma, João Bachara, Wojtek Carroll, Emma |
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Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Martín, Vidal Silva, Monica Edler, Roland Reyes, Cristel Carrillo, Manuel Schiavi, Agustina Morales, Talia García-Ovide, Belen Sanchez-Mora, Anna Garcia-Tavero, Nerea Steiner, Lisa Scheer, Michael Gockel, Roland Walker, Dylan Villa, Enrico Szlama, Petra Eriksson, Ida K. Tejedor, Marisa Perez-Gil, Monica Quaresma, João Bachara, Wojtek Carroll, Emma |
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True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia |
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True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia |
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True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia |
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true’s beaked whale (mesoplodon mirus) in macaronesia |
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PeerJ Aguilar de Soto , N , Martín , V , Silva , M , Edler , R , Reyes , C , Carrillo , M , Schiavi , A , Morales , T , García-Ovide , B , Sanchez-Mora , A , Garcia-Tavero , N , Steiner , L , Scheer , M , Gockel , R , Walker , D , Villa , E , Szlama , P , Eriksson , I K , Tejedor , M , Perez-Gil , M , Quaresma , J , Bachara , W & Carroll , E 2017 , ' True’s beaked whale ( Mesoplodon mirus ) in Macaronesia ' , PeerJ , vol. 5 , e3059 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 2167-8359 PURE: 249252367 PURE UUID: 950131ed-b8c7-4a61-baaa-86e431aa50de RIS: urn:0FC024C9273257219936361CC0084107 Scopus: 85014670893 PubMed: 28286714 WOS: 000396904400005 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10425 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 661081 |
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/10425 2023-07-02T03:33:05+02:00 True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Martín, Vidal Silva, Monica Edler, Roland Reyes, Cristel Carrillo, Manuel Schiavi, Agustina Morales, Talia García-Ovide, Belen Sanchez-Mora, Anna Garcia-Tavero, Nerea Steiner, Lisa Scheer, Michael Gockel, Roland Walker, Dylan Villa, Enrico Szlama, Petra Eriksson, Ida K. Tejedor, Marisa Perez-Gil, Monica Quaresma, João Bachara, Wojtek Carroll, Emma European Commission The Royal Society University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit 2017-03-08T16:30:19Z 22 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10425 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 eng eng PeerJ Aguilar de Soto , N , Martín , V , Silva , M , Edler , R , Reyes , C , Carrillo , M , Schiavi , A , Morales , T , García-Ovide , B , Sanchez-Mora , A , Garcia-Tavero , N , Steiner , L , Scheer , M , Gockel , R , Walker , D , Villa , E , Szlama , P , Eriksson , I K , Tejedor , M , Perez-Gil , M , Quaresma , J , Bachara , W & Carroll , E 2017 , ' True’s beaked whale ( Mesoplodon mirus ) in Macaronesia ' , PeerJ , vol. 5 , e3059 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 2167-8359 PURE: 249252367 PURE UUID: 950131ed-b8c7-4a61-baaa-86e431aa50de RIS: urn:0FC024C9273257219936361CC0084107 Scopus: 85014670893 PubMed: 28286714 WOS: 000396904400005 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10425 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 661081 Copyright © 2017 Aguilar de Soto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Ziphiidae Cytochrome b mtDNA Genetics Colouration patterns Phenotype North Atlantic Cetacean distribution Canary Islands Azores GC Oceanography QH301 Biology QL Zoology DAS GC QH301 QL Journal article 2017 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3059 2023-06-13T18:31:02Z The True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus, True 1913) is a poorly known member of the Ziphiidae family. Its distribution in the northern hemisphere is thought to be restricted to the temperate or warm temperate waters of the North Atlantic, while a few stranding records from the southern hemisphere suggest a wider and antitropical distribution, extending to waters from the Atlantic coast of Brazil to South Africa, Mozambique, Australia and the Tasman Sea coast of New Zealand. This paper (i) reports the first molecular confirmation of the occurrence of the True’s beaked whale at the southern limit of its distribution recorded in the northeast Atlantic: the Azores and Canary Islands (macaronesian ecoregion); (ii) describes a new colouration for this species using evidence from a whale with molecular species confirmation; and (iii) contributes to the sparse worldwide database of live sightings, including the first underwater video recording of this species and close images of a calf. Species identification was confirmed in two cases using mitochondrial DNA control region and cytochrome b gene markers: a subadult male True’s beaked whale that stranded in El Hierro, Canary Islands, in November 2012, and a subadult male found floating dead near Faial, the Azores, in July 2004. The whale that stranded in the Canary Islands had a clearly delimited white area on its head, extending posteriorly from the tip of the beak to cover the blowhole dorsally and the gular grooves ventrally. This colouration contrasts with previous descriptions for the species and it may be rare, but it exemplifies the variability of the colouration of True’s beaked whales in the North Atlantic, further confirmed here by live sightings data. The recording of several observations of this species in deep but relatively coastal waters off the Azores and the Canary Islands suggests that these archipelagos may be unique locations to study the behaviour of the enigmatic True’s beaked whale. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository New Zealand The Beak ENVELOPE(-130.771,-130.771,56.466,56.466) PeerJ 5 e3059 |