Table 1.
Recorded cetacean strandings (excluding Megaptera novaeangliae) along the coast of Espírito Santo state, southeast Brazil, from January 1975 to September 2015. The number of stranded individuals is represented as “Male : Female : Unknown sex”.
| Family | Species | Common name | Calf | Juvenile | Adult | Unknown age | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balaenidae | Eubalaena australis | Southern right whale | – | – | – | 0:0:1 | 0:0:1 |
| Balaenopteridae | Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Common Minke whale | 1:0:0 | 0:1:0 | – | 1:0:0 | 2:1:0 |
| Balaenoptera borealis | Sei whale | – | – | – | 0:0:1 | 0:0:1 | |
| Delphinidae | Globicephala macrorhynchus | Short-finned pilot whale | – | 1:0:0 | – | – | 1:0:0 |
| Grampus griseus | Risso’s dolphin | 1:0:0 | – | 1:0:0 | – | 2:0:0 | |
| Orcinus orca | Orca | – | 0:1:0 | – | – | 0:1:0 | |
| Peponocephala electra | Melon-headed whale | 0:1:0 | 0:0:1 | 2:1:0 | 0:0:1 | 2:2:2 | |
| Pseudorca crassidens | False killer whale | – | – | – | 0:1:0 | 0:1:0 | |
| Sotalia guianensis | Guiana dolphin | 5:3:7 | 33:19:37 | 54:24:66 | 10:1:85 | 102:47:195 | |
| Stenella attenuata | Pantropical spotted dolphin | 1:0:0 | 1:0:0 | – | 0:0:1 | 2:0:1 | |
| Stenella frontalis | Atlantic spotted dolphin | – | – | 0:1:0 | – | 0:1:0 | |
| Stenella longirostris | Spinner dolphin | – | 0:1:0 | 0:1:0 | 0:0:1 | 0:2:1 | |
| Steno bredanensis | Rough-toothed dolphin | 0:0:2 | 2:0:0 | 3:4:1 | 1:0:2 | 6:4:5 | |
| Tursiops truncatus | Bottlenose dolphin | – | 1:0:0 | 7:1:1 | 0:0:4 | 8:1:5 | |
| Kogiidae | Kogia breviceps | Pygmy sperm whale | – | – | – | 0:0:1 | 0:0:1 |
| Kogia sima | Dwarf sperm whale | – | – | – | 0:0:1 | 0:0:1 | |
| Phocoenidae | Phocoena spinipinnis | Burmeister’s porpoise | – | – | 1:0:0 | – | 1:0:0 |
| Physeteridae | Physeter macrocephalus | Sperm whale | 1:0:0 | 0:1:0 | 1:0:0 | 1:0:7 | 3:1:7 |
| Pontoporiidae | Pontoporia blainvillei | Franciscana | 2:2:4 | 1:0:2 | 0:2:13 | 0:1:20 | 3:5:39 |
| Ziphiidae | Ziphius cavirostris | Cuvier’s beaked whale | – | – | 0:3:1 | – | 0:3:1 |
| Total | 11:6:13 | 39:23:40 | 69:37:82 | 13:3:125 | 132:69:260 |