Identificaciones de ziphiidae_consultant

I think Arnoux's Beked Whale but not 100% sure. Arnoux's because of:

• range
• color
• long beak
• bulbous melon which is steep
• size (like minke whale)

However: there are no scars at all. The dorsal fin looks to big, pointed and curved.

Maybe female southern bottle nose?

Would love to know and have a discussion!

I think Arnoux's Beked Whale but not 100% sure. Arnoux's because of:

• range
• color
• long beak
• bulbous melon which is steep
• size (like minke whale)

However: there are no scars at all. The dorsal fin looks to big, pointed and curved.

Maybe female southern bottle nose?

Would love to know and have a discussion!

Washed up in decayed state. Upper jaw broken. A calf (presumably the same species and probably belonging to this female individual) was found washed up and decomposing about 300m away on the same beach (third photo, with calf in the foreground and adult in the background).

Fedutin, Ivan & Meschersky, Ilya & Filatova, Olga & Titova, Olga & Bobyr, I. & Burdin, Alexander & Hoyt, Erich. (2020). Records of a New Cetacean Species of the Genus Berardius from Russian Waters. Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 46. 199-206. 10.1134/S1063074020030050.

"The individual from the Sea of Okhotsk coast of Kunashir Island that was found by the staff of the
Kurilskiy State Nature Reserve in May 2015 turned out to be a black beaked whale (sample Bsp1505, the sequence is identical to haplotype b1, according to [9]). This was an adult male (Fig. 2) whose body length from the rostrum tip to the fluke notch was 7.11 m".