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Status of pinnipeds in Southeast Asia

  • Simon P. Mahood EMAIL logo und J.W. Duckworth
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 4. März 2015
Mammalia
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Abstract

There are no published records of pinnipeds in Southeast Asia. Photographs in the national media between January 2010 and December 2013 documented seven pinniped records. All were individuals caught by fishermen in the central part of Vietnam (17°56′N south to 15°23′N). All except one pinniped record can be assigned to Largha (=Spotted) Seal Phoca largha, the most southerly breeding true seal in the north Pacific. The only other pinniped species recorded in Vietnam during the period was one Northern Fur Seal Callorhinus ursinus. The minimum distance between the southernmost area where these species occur regularly and central Vietnam is 3500 km; this is comparable to distances travelled by other vagrant pinnipeds in other parts of the world. Based on such evidence, Largha Seal and Northern Fur Seal should be added to the list of naturally occurring mammals in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian waters.

Keywords: Callorhinus ursinus; Phoca largha; pinnipeds; Vietnam
Corresponding author: Simon P. Mahood, Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Program, PO Box 1620, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, e-mail:

Acknowledgments

We wish thank Colin Poole for drawing our attention to recent records of pinnipeds from Vietnam and Brian Smith for providing a copy of Dao Tan Ho and Bui Quang Nghi (1999).

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Received: 2014-9-29
Accepted: 2015-1-15
Published Online: 2015-3-4
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2014-0144
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Callorhinus ursinus; Phoca largha; pinnipeds; Vietnam

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Review
  3. The wild goat, Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777, of the island of Montecristo (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): does it still exist?
  4. Original Studies
  5. Trophic relationships of sympatric small carnivores in fragmented landscapes of southern Brazil: niche overlap and potential for competition
  6. Dietary adaptation of white-headed langurs in a fragmented limestone habitat
  7. Winter foraging of chinkara (Gazella bennettii shikarii) in Central Iran
  8. Null model analysis on bat species co-occurrence and nestedness patterns in a region of the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
  9. Richness and distribution of porcupines (Erethizontidae: Coendou) from Colombia
  10. The level of rodent problems in poultry farms of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Pakistan
  11. Survival and recruitment of the multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834), in a rice agro-ecosystem
  12. New records of Cryptonanus guahybae (Tate, 1931) in southern Brazil inferred from molecular and morphological data
  13. Short Notes
  14. The wild goat of Montecristo Island: did it ever exist?
  15. First record of a bat from the Lakshadweep archipelago, southwestern India
  16. Status of pinnipeds in Southeast Asia
  17. Breeding habits of the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Potohar Plateau, Pakistan
  18. Litter size and basic diet of brown bears (Ursus arctos, Carnivora) in northeastern Turkey
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