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The Northernmost Record of a Stranded Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Calf in Ecuador’s North Coast: Notes on Stranding Causes and Distribution Expansion in the Southeastern Tropical Pacific

Author(s):

Juan José Alava and Patricia Rosero R.

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Document: Short Note

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.50.5.2024.373

Page Numbers: 373-382

 

Publisher’s Note

On 22 November 2024, it was brought to the attention of the Managing Editor of Aquatic Mammals that the authors (Drs. Alava and Rosero) of this short note incorrectly cited two International Whaling Commission (IWC) reports included in their citation list. They did not have permission from the authors of those reports to cite the material.

IWC Reports:

Castro, C., García-Cegarra, A. M., Uceda-Vega, P., Aguilar, L., Kelez, K., Buchan, S. J., & Van Waerebeek, K. (2023). First documented records of southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) of the Chile-Peru population: First observations in Ecuador and north of Peru (SC/69A/CMP/25). International Whaling Commission. 14 pp.

Galletti Vernazzani, B., Castro, C., Cabrera, E., Felix, F., Ulloa, M., Sironi, M., & Brownell, R. L., Jr. (2024). Two dead calves of Critically Endangered Chile-Peru southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) stranded in 2023 with evidence on human interactions (Paper SC/69B/CMP/11Rev2). Presented to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee. 14 pp.

 

The material in the IWC reports has been published in PLoS ONE (see link here).

Castro Ayala C, Garcı´a-Cegarra AM, Uceda-Vega P, Aguilar L, Kelez S, Buchan SJ, et al. (2024) New northernmost distribution records of the Eastern South Pacific southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), including the first cases from Ecuador and northern Peru. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312528. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312528

Alava and Rosero apologize to the IWC and acknowledge to the reports’ authors (Castro et al. and Galletti Vernazzani et al.) that these reports were used without consent and point readers to the recently published Castro-Ayala et al. paper in PLoS ONE.

 

Sincerely,

Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D.

Managing Editor, Aquatic Mammals

[email protected]

 

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