Record of a juvenile Omura's whale live stranded in Hainan Island: Evidence of a potential breeding ground in the South China Sea?

On January 12, 2011, a very young juvenile Bryde's-like baleen whale was found stranded alive on the east coast of Hainan Island, in the South China Sea. Unfortunately, it died the next morning. This baleen whale showed some unique external morphology and skull features of the Omura's whal...

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Main Authors: Ruilin He, Xiaoling Wan, Minmin Chen, Fei Fan, Ding Wang, Jinsong Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2022-08-01
Series:Water Biology and Security
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772735122000762