Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Vol.6 No.2(2016), Paper ID 65451, 7 pages

DOI:10.4236/ojas.2016.62014

 

White Patch on the Fore-Flipper of Common Minke Whale, as a Potential Morphological Index to Identify Stocks

 

Gen Nakamura, Ichiro Kadowaki, Shouka Nagatsuka, Ryotaro Hayashi, Naohisa Kanda, Mutsuo Goto, Luis A. Pastene, Hidehiro Kato

 

Laboratory of Cetacean Biology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Laboratory of Cetacean Biology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Laboratory of Cetacean Biology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Laboratory of Cetacean Biology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Japan NUS Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo, Japan
Laboratory of Cetacean Biology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

 

Copyright © 2016 Gen Nakamura, Ichiro Kadowaki, Shouka Nagatsuka, Ryotaro Hayashi, Naohisa Kanda, Mutsuo Goto, Luis A. Pastene, Hidehiro Kato et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Nakamura, G. , Kadowaki, I. , Nagatsuka, S. , Hayashi, R. , Kanda, N. , Goto, M. , Pastene, L. and Kato, H. (2016) White Patch on the Fore-Flipper of Common Minke Whale, as a Potential Morphological Index to Identify Stocks. Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 6, 116-122. doi: 10.4236/ojas.2016.62014.

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