섹션 개요

    • Sato’s beaked whale is a toothed whale species inhabiting the Sea of Okhotsk and other areas. Stranding Network Hokkaido, for which Matsuishi Laboratory serves as the secretariat, has been collected specimens from beached bodies along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido since 2008, and in August 2019, it was registered as a new species.


    • 新種クロツチクジラ

      New species  Sato’s beaked whale
      Berardius minimus sp. nov. Yamada, Kitamura & Matsuishi, 2019

      Illustration based on external morphometric measurements of a Sato’s beaked whale　
      Picture : WATANABE Yoshimi, National Museum of Science