Table 1.
Summary of sampled cetaceans, stranded on U.S. Pacific Islands 1997–2013
| Species | Common name | Phylogenetic Group |
Sample ID |
Sex | Age Class |
Stranding Location |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feresa attenuata | Pygmy killer whale | Dolphin | KW2009006 | M | A | Maui | 2009 |
| Indopacetus pacificus | Longman's beaked whale | Beaked | KW2010005 | M | J | Maui | 2010 |
| Kogia breviceps | Pygmy sperm whale | Sperm | 15320-001 | M | J | Kaua'i | 2000 |
| Kogia sima | Dwarf sperm whale | Sperm | 15377-001 | M | A | O'ahu | 2000 |
| KW2009012 | M | A | Kaua’i | 2009 | |||
| Megaptera novaeangliae | Humpback whale | Baleen | 15063-001 | F | C | Lāna'i | 1998 |
| KW2013001 | F | C | Lāna'i | 2013 | |||
| KW2013002 | M | C | O'ahu | 2013 | |||
| KW2013007 | M | C | O'ahu | 2013 | |||
| KW2013010 | F | C | Lāna'i | 2013 | |||
| Mesoplodon densirostris | Blainville's beaked whale | Beaked | KW2010012 | M | J | Maui | 2010 |
| Orcinus orca | Killer whale | Dolphin | KW2008010 | M | A | Kaua'i | 2008 |
| Peponocephala electra | Melon-headed whale | Dolphin | KW2011002 | M | C | O'ahu | 2011 |
| KW2011011 | M | A | Maui | 2011 | |||
| KW2012003 | M | A | O'ahu | 2012 | |||
| Physeter macrocephalus | Sperm whale | Sperm | KW2011008 | F | C | O'ahu | 2011 |
| Pseudorca crassidens | False killer whale | Dolphin | KW2010019 | F | A | Moloka'i | 2010 |
| Stenella attenuata | Pantropical-spotted dolphin | Dolphin | KW2009015 | M | A | Hawai'i | 2009 |
| KW2010011 | M | C | Guam | 2009 | |||
| Stenella coeruleoalba | Striped dolphin | Dolphin | 12470-001 | M | A | O'ahu | 1997 |
| KW2008006 | F | C | Hawai'i | 2008 | |||
| KW2009008 | M | J | O'ahu | 2009 | |||
| KW2009009 | F | A | Maui | 2009 | |||
| KW2009011 | F | C | Maui | 2009 | |||
| KW2010008 | M | A | Hawai'i | 2010 | |||
| KW2012002 | F | A | O'ahu | 2012 | |||
| KW2013006 | M | J | O'ahu | 2013 | |||
| Stenella longirostris | Spinner dolphin | Dolphin | 15028-001 | M | C | O'ahu | 1997 |
| KW2007004 | M | J | O'ahu | 2007 | |||
| KW2008004 | M | A | Maui | 2008 | |||
| KW2008009 | F | A | Hawai'i | 2008 | |||
| KW2008011 | F | A | Hawai'i | 2008 | |||
| KW2009004 | F | C | O'ahu | 2009 | |||
| KW2010006 | M | J | O'ahu | 2010 | |||
| KW2011013 | M | C | Hawai'i | 2011 | |||
| KW2011018 | F | C | O'ahu | 2011 | |||
| KW2013009 | M | J | Hawai'i | 2013 | |||
| Steno bredanensis | Rough-toothed dolphin | Dolphin | KW2011021 | M | A | Kaua'i | 2011 |
| Tursiops truncatus | Bottlenose dolphin | Dolphin | 15121-001 | M | C | O'ahu | 1998 |
| KW2011001 | F | J | Kaua'i | 2011 | |||
| KW2011007 | M | A | Kaua'i | 2011 | |||
| Ziphius cavirostris | Cuvier's beaked whale | Beaked | KW2008008 | M | J | Moloka'i | 2008 |
| KW2011016 | M | A | Saipan | 2011 |
M = male, F = female, C = calf, J = juvenile, A = adult