Contribution to the census of cetacean in the Guadeloupe archipelago

• Main Author: Gandilhon, Nadège
• Other Authors: Antilles-Guyane, Louis, Max, Adam, Olivier
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Cétacés; Abondance; Distribution; Mammifères marins; Recensement; Cetaceans; Abundance; Marine mammals; Census; envir; geo; Baleine; Dauphins; Faroe Islands; la Baleine; baleen whales; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Baleine à bosse
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2012AGUY0520/document

In 325 surveys, 518 visuai observations and acoustic 202 have identified four families, 14 genera and 17 species, representing a cumulative total ofnearly 6000 cetaceans assessed within 15 miles of coastal water ofGuadeloupe. Dolphins (Delphinidae), constitute 33% ofthe 36 species currently known in...