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First record of Ramari's beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) for Uruguay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2024

Meica Valdivia Open the ORCID record for Meica Valdivia [Opens in a new window] ,
Lucía Frones ,
Emilia Rossini ,
Paula Laporta ,
Emma L. Carroll ,
Michael R. McGowen ,
Felix G. Marx  and
Néstor Ríos
Meica Valdivia*
Affiliation:
Sección Mamíferos, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay
Lucía Frones
Affiliation:
Sección Mamíferos, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay
Emilia Rossini
Affiliation:
Departamento de Patología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Paula Laporta
Affiliation:
Asociación civil Yaqu Pacha Uruguay, Punta del Diablo, Rocha, Uruguay Centro Universitario Regional del Este, Universidad de la República, Rocha, Uruguay
Emma L. Carroll
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Michael R. McGowen
Affiliation:
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Felix G. Marx
Affiliation:
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Néstor Ríos
Affiliation:
Sección Genética Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Corresponding author: Meica Valdivia; Email: meicavaldivia@gmail.com
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Abstract

We report the first record of Ramari's beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu) from the temperate Southwestern Atlantic. Our analysis is based on an adult female and a plausibly associated calf/juvenile that stranded on the coast of Canelones Department, Uruguay. The species of the two individuals was identified via a combination of morphometric and molecular mitochondrial data and provide new insights into the Ramari's beaked whale, including previously unknown polymorphisms in the mitochondrial genome and a re-estimated date of divergence from Mesoplodon mirus at 2.5902 Mya.

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distributionSouth AmericastrandingTrue's beaked whale
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Marine Record
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 104 , 2024 , e7
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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