First description of a deceased juvenile whale shark Rhincodon typus in La Paz Bay, Mexico with comments on morphometry and age estimates

First description of a deceased juvenile whale shark Rhincodon typus in La Paz Bay, Mexico with comments on morphometry and age estimates

ABSTRACT This paper is the first report with morphometric measurements in the Eastern Tropical Pacific of a deceased 5.48 m juvenile whale shark Rhincodon typus, from a rare stranding in La Paz Bay in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Biological measurements and age estimation are provided by the anal...

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Autores principales: Whitehead,Darren, Galván-Magaña,Felipe, Soto-López,Katherin, Juaristi-Videgaray,Diego, Cervantes-Gutiérrez,Fabián, Becerril-García,Edgar Eduardo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del Mar 2019
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Rhincodon typus
stranding
vertebrae
age
Gulf of California
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-560X2019000300575
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