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  • Biodiversity Journal, 7 (1): 033-038

    Nicola Maio, Vincenzo Maione & Riccardo Sgammato
    First record of a Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Cetacea Balaenopteridae)

    ABSTRACT
    It is reported the sighting of a Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) (Cetacea Balaenopteridae) in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, near the coast of Baia (Bacoli, Napoli, Campania, Southern Italy). This record represents the first in the Tyrrenian Sea, the eighth in the Italian Seas and the twenty-fourth in the Mediterranean Sea.