. The Canadian field-naturalist. 190 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 105. FlGI Ri I. False Killer Whale stranded alive at Ucluelet. 28 July I9S7. Photo b\ Mark Hobson. (Flower 1865; Hershkovitz 1966; Leatherwood and Reeves 1983). In the western Atlantic they have been reported from North Carolina south to the Strait of Magellan (Miller 1920; Brimley 1937; Hershkovitz 1966; Caldwell et al. 1971; CETAP 1982; Goodall and Schiavini 1989). In the eastern Atlantic they have been reported from Britain, Denmark, Holland, and the North Sea south to Portugal and South Africa (Reinhardt 1866; Fra
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 190 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 105. FlGI Ri I. False Killer Whale stranded alive at Ucluelet. 28 July I9S7. Photo b\ Mark Hobson. (Flower 1865; Hershkovitz 1966; Leatherwood and Reeves 1983). In the western Atlantic they have been reported from North Carolina south to the Strait of Magellan (Miller 1920; Brimley 1937; Hershkovitz 1966; Caldwell et al. 1971; CETAP 1982; Goodall and Schiavini 1989). In the eastern Atlantic they have been reported from Britain, Denmark, Holland, and the North Sea south to Portugal and South Africa (Reinhardt 1866; Fraser 1936). False Killer Whales are also found throughout the Indian Ocean and the Mediterra- nean ( Mitchell 1975a; Leatherwood et al. inpress). Oil British Columbia, their presence has been confirmed by 23 records, all since 19X7. and all of single individuals ( I able I; Figure 3; Baird el al. 1989). I hree oi these records represent strandings. I ourteen ol the records were sightings in Barkley Sound on the uest eoast ol Vancouver Island in mil were most likely oi the same individual (Barry el al. 1989) rhere have been several othei reports l a single 1 alse Killer Whale in Barkley Sound, bui details are insufficient to positively confirm species identity l here is one record from Prince William Sound. Alaska (Martin in Leatherwood el al 1982), and two records from Washington State (Scheffei and Slipp 1948; Osborne el al I(>km rhere are no confirmed rds from the east coasl ol ( anada \ record â by some authors from Davis Strait off Baffin island, is unsubstantiated (Millei 1920) fhe scarcity of records in Canada and the increasing frequency of records progressively southward sug- gest that False Killer Whales are at the northern- most limit of their range in Canadian waters. Protection International Regulation of international trade between members and non-members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has been esta
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