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Table 4 Stranding records of Longman’s beaked whales confirmed in the western North Pacific to date, including the Miyako specimen in this publication. The locations of Longman’s beaked whales stranded in Japan are indicated as stars on the map in Fig. 1

From: The first record of a Longman’s beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) newborn neonate found on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan

Case #

Date of Stranding

Location

Sex

Age class

Body length (cm)

Specimen ID

Source

1

2002-07-26

Japan

Female

Adult

648

KGA M14

Yamada et al. (2004); Yatabe et al. (2010)

2

2002-09-09

China

Male

Adult

608

Peng et al. (2009)

3

2004-01-13

Philippines

Male

Sub adult

573

Acebes et al. (2005)

4

2005-07-22

Taiwan

Female

Adult

565

IL 2005-23-1

Yang et al. (2008); Watson et al. (2008)

Taiwan

Male

Juvenile

420

IL 2005-23-2

5

2010-09-25

Japan

Female

Adult

630

NSMT36311

Yamada et al. (2012)

6

2011-07-31

Japan

Male

Juvenile

478

OCF-MM20110730

Tokutake et al. (2012); Kobayashi et al. (2020)

7

2016-02-07

Philippines

Male

Sub adult

502

Acebes et al. (2019)

8

2018-09-15

Philippines

Male

Sub adult

540

9

2018-09-16

Philippines

Male

Sub adult

560

10

2020-07-27

Japan

Female

Neonate

235

OCF-MM20200727

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