New Distribution Records of Cetaceans from the Federated States of Micronesia

Donald W. Buden; Allain Bourgoin

doi:10.2984/72.4.7

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Donald W. Buden,^1,* Allain Bourgoin^1,**

¹2Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Micronesia-FSM, P.O. Box 159, Kolonia, Poh

^*Corresponding author: (e-mail: don_buden@comfsm.fm).
^**Current address: Ste-Genevieve-de-Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, GOX 2RO.

Abstract

Photographs of a whale initially found alive in mangroves in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), in July 2016 document the first record of the genus Kogia in the Caroline Islands. With its small size and what can be seen of its dentition, it most closely resembles a dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima, but the possibility of it being an immature pygmy sperm whale, K. breviceps, cannot be excluded. In addition, we report the first documented record of a short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus for Pohnpei State, and the first confirmed records of killer whales, Orcinus orca, and false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, for the FSM and the Caroline Islands, respectively.

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Donald W. Buden and Allain Bourgoin "New Distribution Records of Cetaceans from the Federated States of Micronesia," Pacific Science 72(4), 475-483, (1 October 2018). https://doi.org/10.2984/72.4.7

Accepted: 7 February 2018; Published: 1 October 2018

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