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- Title
Stranding of a minke whale on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, April 2015.
- Authors
Öztürk, Ayaka Amaha; Dede, Ayhan; Tonay, Arda M.; Danyer, Erdem; Aytemiz, Işıl
- Abstract
Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804, is known as a visitor species in the Mediterranean Sea. On 10 April 2015, a female minke whale stranded in Yumurtalık on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The body length and body weight were measured as 3.55 m and 400 kg, respectively. The carcass was necropsied, however the reason of the stranding was not evident due the advanced stage of decomposition. This is the second case of minke whale stranding in Turkey.
- Subjects
MEDITERRANEAN Coast (Turkey); MINKE whale; BEACHING of whales; BODY weight; FISH carcasses
- Publication
Journal of the Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 2, p232
- ISSN
1304-9550
- Publication type
Article