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Azores cetaceans updated checklist

Citation

Azevedo J, Barreiros J P (2019). Azores cetaceans updated checklist. Version 1.1. Universidade dos Açores. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dmrkx9 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-22.

Description

All 28 species of Cetaceans known to occurr within the Azores' EEZ (corresponding to ca. 36% of all 86 cetacean species - including 6 freshwater ones) are listed in this updated checklist. Following the last update (Prieto & Silva, 2010) this "situation point" is presently the basis for further eventual new records. Three species listed here are certainly occasional and/or vagrant (i.e. Eubalaena glacialis, Lagenodelphis hosei and Phocoena phocoena). For an updated cheklist on the world's cetaceans see Perrin (2019).

Purpose

Updating Azorean biota checklists

Taxonomic Coverages

Class Mammalia: Order Cetacea
  1. Cetacea
    common name: Cetaceans rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Azores EEZ limits.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Prieto R., Silva M. 2010. Marine Mammals (Mammalia). Pp. 344-345. In: Borges P.A.V., Costa A., Cunha R., Gabriel R., Gonçalves V., Martins A. F., Melo I., Parente M., Raposeiro P., Rodrigues P., Santos R.S., Silva L., Vieira P, Vieira V. (eds.) A List of the Terrestrial and Marine Biota from the Azores. Principia, Cascais; -
  2. Perrin, W.F. (2019). World Cetacea Database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea on 2019-10-04 -

Contacts

José Azevedo
originator
position: Assistant Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua da Mãe de Deus
Ponta Delgada
9600
string:Portugal
PT
email: jose.mn.azevedo@uac.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-1371
João Pedro Barreiros
originator
position: Aggregate Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua Capitao Joao D'Avila
Angra do Heroismo
9701-042
string:Portugal
PT
Telephone: +3519656916
email: joao.ps.barreiros@uac.pt
homepage: https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/member/joaopedrobarreiros
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6685
João Pedro Barreiros
metadata author
position: Aggregate Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua Capitao Joao D'Avila
Angra do Heroismo
9701-042
string:Portugal
Telephone: +3519656916
email: joao.ps.barreiros@uac.pt
homepage: https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/member/joaopedrobarreiros
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6685
José Azevedo
author
position: Assistant Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua da Mãe de Deus
Ponta Delgada
9600
string:Portugal
PT
email: jose.mn.azevedo@uac.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-1371
João Pedro Barreiros
author
position: Aggregate Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua Capitao Joao D'Avila
Angra do Heroismo
9701-042
string:Portugal
Telephone: +3519656916
email: joao.ps.barreiros@uac.pt
homepage: https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/member/joaopedrobarreiros
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6685
José Azevedo
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua da Mãe de Deus
Ponta Delgada
9600
string:Portugal
PT
email: jose.mn.azevedo@uac.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-1371
João Pedro Barreiros
administrative point of contact
position: Aggregate Professor
Universidade dos Açores
Rua Capitao Joao D'Avila
Angra do Heroismo
9701-042
string:Portugal
PT
Telephone: +3519656916
email: joao.ps.barreiros@uac.pt
homepage: https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/member/joaopedrobarreiros
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6685
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