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Mediterranean and Black Sea Cetacean Red List Assessment
Pseudorca crassidens
1948 (Nov.). Due
to an inconsistency
in the report, year
could also be 1928
Off Port-de-Bouc,
near Marseille,
France
4.8 m Captured in tuna net Paulus 1963
1951 (Aug.) Ile du Levant, France Stranded Paulus 1963
1955 (31 Jul.) Malta fish market Taken and sold as bait for £1 Lanfranco 1969
1955 (year of
report; no actual
date specified)
Between 1959 and
1961
2 miles North of
Baltim, Nile’s Delta,
Egypt
Northern Adriatic
Sea, Italian shores
1966 (3 Sep.) 20 nm East of
Marbella, Spain
Sometime between
1978 and 1982
Off the Tyrrhenian
coast of Calabria,
Italy
Fragment of skull found on beach
From a pod of 30-40 a group of 7
captured; 4 escaped, and 2 were killed.
Pod of about 20 sighted
Two specimens captured in drifting
longline
1988 (Mar.) Colonia de San
Pedro, Majorca,
Spain
1988 (20 May) Gela, Sicily, Italy M 460 cm Found stranded in advanced
decomposition
1989 (22 Nov.) Santa Margherita di
Pula, Sardinia, Italy
Wassif 1956, Marchessaux
1980
Stanzani and Piermarocchi
1992
Pilleri 1967, Busnel and
Dziedzic 1968, Castells and
Mayo 1994
Di Natale and Mangano
1983
Adult stranded Castells and Mayo 1994
Cagnolaro et al. 1989,
Centro Studi Cetacei 1990
F 4 m Stranded Centro Studi Cetacei 1991
1989 Strait of Gibraltar Pod of about 15 sighted Castells and Mayo 1994
1991 (1 May) Capriccioli, Sardinia, About Stranded in advanced decomposition Centro Studi Cetacei 1994
Italy
6 m
1991 (22 Jun.) Few km South of
Skull found on beach Kasparek 1997
Lattakia, Syria
1992 Between Chios
7+ individuals sighted and photographed Frantzis et al. 2003
Island, Greece, and
Chesme (Turkey)
1993 Argolikos Gulf,
Stranded Frantzis et al. 2003
Aegean Sea, Greece
1995 Izmir Bay, Turkey Stranded alive and died afterwards Ozturk and Ozturk 1998,
Frantzis et al. 2003,
Güçlüsoy et al. 2004,
Güçlüsoy 2005
1995 (3 Sep.) Carboneras,
Andalusia, Spain
2003 (28 Mar.) 70 nm West of the
Israeli coastline (33°
18’N, 0033° 44’E)
2004 (30 Jun.) Nature reserve of
Habonim, Israel
Pod of 8 sighted
Pod of about 20 sighted and
photographed
Stranded in advanced decomposition
Sagarminaga and Cañadas
1997
Scheinin et al. 2004
Dani Kerem, Aviad
Scheinin, in litt.
2005 (24 Apr.) 50 nm West of Haifa Pod sighted and filmed Aviad Scheinin, in litt.
2006 (26 May) 20 nm West of
Two sighted.
Aviad Scheinin, in litt.
Northern Israel
Note: Seven sightings by non-specialists reported by McBrearty et al. 1986 are not listed above because
they are not sufficiently documented.
Data Sources
Arbocco G. 1969. Pinnipedi, cetacei e sirenii del Museo di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali Museo
Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria” 77:658-670.
Beltrame A. 1933. Duro a morire (colour plate depicting the capture of a false killer whale in the Strait of
Messina). La Domenica del Corriere 35(12):16.
Busnel R.-G., Dziedzic A. 1968. Caracteristiques physiques des signaux acoustiques de Pseudorca
crassidens Owen (cétacé odontocète). Mammalia 32:1-5.
Cagnolaro L., Magnaghi L., Podestà M., Jann B. 1989. False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens - a rare
stranding for the Italian coast. European Research on Cetaceans 3:65-66.
Casinos A., Vericad J.-R. 1976. The cetaceans of the Spanish coast: a survey. Mammalia 40(2):267-289.
Castells A., Mayo M. 1994. False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens (Owen 1846) in Mallorca, Balearic
Islands (Spain). European Research on Cetaceans 8:86.
Centro Studi Cetacei. 1990. Cetacei spiaggiati lungo le coste italiane. III. Rendiconto 1988. Atti
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