Marine mammal records of Cuba

Amy Whitt

doi:10.15468/5xe5wm

Marine mammal records of Cuba

Citation

Whitt, A. 2015. Marine mammal records of Cuba. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1190) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/5xe5wm accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-01.

Description

Original provider: Amy Whitt Dataset credits: Amy Whitt Abstract: There has been very little research on marine mammals in Cuban waters. Much of the information on marine mammals in this region is buried in historical and gray literature. In order to provide a comprehensive account of marine mammal occurrence in Cuba’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), we reviewed and verified 659 published and unpublished sighting, stranding, capture, and tagging records. Eighteen extant species and four genera have confirmed records for Cuban EEZ waters. This includes 17 species of cetaceans (three baleen whales and 14 toothed whales) and one sirenian species. An additional 11 cetacean species and one extant pinniped species have been reported, but not confirmed, or may have the potential to occur in Cuban waters. Historical records of the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) are documented in Cuba; however, this species is now considered extinct. The only two species that are seen regularly and considered common in Cuban nearshore waters are the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Supplemental information: [2018-04-16] Irregular date of 2069-11-09 was corrected to 1969-11-09. The temporal precision varies among records and most of the records do not have times (except those from satellite tag detections). Some of the lat/long had to be estimated because exact locations were not available. For each record, there is a note describing the locations that are exact. As for the estimated lat/long, we estimated some of these just by finding the lat/long of the general location that was mentioned with the record. For some others, we georeferenced the coordinates from old figures of sightings/strandings since the raw data were not available.

Purpose

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Sampling Description

Study Extent

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Sampling

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Method steps

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Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Stenella frontalis
common name: Atlantic Spotted Dolphin rank: species
Balaenoptera
common name: baleen whales rank: genus
Mesoplodon densirostris
common name: Blainville's Beaked Whale rank: species
Tursiops truncatus
common name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin rank: species
Balaenoptera brydei
common name: Bryde's whale rank: species
Monachus tropicalis
common name: Caribbean Monk Seal rank: species
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
common name: Minke Whale rank: species
Ziphius cavirostris
common name: Cuvier's Beaked Whale rank: species
Kogia sima
common name: Dwarf Sperm Whale rank: species
Pseudorca crassidens
common name: False Killer Whale rank: species
Balaenoptera physalus
common name: Fin Whale rank: species
Mesoplodon europaeus
common name: Gervais' Beaked Whale rank: species
Globicephala
common name: pilot whales rank: genus
Megaptera novaeangliae
common name: Humpback Whale rank: species
Orcinus orca
common name: Killer Whale rank: species
Kogia
common name: pygmy sperm whales rank: genus
Stenella attenuata
common name: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin rank: species
Kogia breviceps
common name: Pygmy Sperm Whale rank: species
Grampus griseus
common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
Steno bredanensis
common name: Rough-toothed Dolphin rank: species
Globicephala macrorhynchus
common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
Physeter macrocephalus
common name: Sperm Whale rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Stenella
common name: spinner dolphins rank: genus
Delphinidae
common name: dolphins rank: family
Mesoplodon
common name: beaked whales rank: genus
Cetacea
common name: cetaceans rank: order
Delphinidae
common name: dolphins rank: family
Cetacea
common name: cetaceans rank: order
Cetacea
common name: cetaceans rank: order
Caniformia
common name: pinnipeds rank: suborder
Balaenoptera
common name: baleen whales rank: genus
Cetacea
common name: cetaceans rank: order
Trichechus manatus
common name: West Indian Manatee rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Caribbean,Cuba

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Amy Whitt
originator
position: Primary contact
Azura Consulting LLC
email: amy@azuraco.com
homepage: http://www.azuraco.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Amy Whitt
owner
position: Primary contact
Azura Consulting LLC
email: amy@azuraco.com
homepage: http://www.azuraco.com

Amy Whitt
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Azura Consulting LLC
email: amy@azuraco.com
homepage: http://www.azuraco.com