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* According to the current understanding of distribution, Fin, Minke and Sei whales are not present in the Northern Indian ocean.

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K.S. Natarajan	01-10-1939	SRI LANKA - South	Blue whale	Dodanduwa; single animal.	whales & Dolphins Sri Lanka by Anouk Ilangakoon	View
K.S. Natarajan	??-??-1932	SRI LANKA - East	Blue whale	Nirodumunai; single animal; 35 feet long.	whales & Dolphins Sri Lanka by Anouk Ilangakoon	View
K.S. Natarajan	30-05-1932	SRI LANKA - East	Blue whale	Koddiyar Bay; single animal; 66 feet long.	whales & Dolphins Sri Lanka by Anouk Ilangakoon	View
K.S. Natarajan	26-05-1932	SRI LANKA - East	Blue whale	Thampalagam Bay; single animal; male.	whales & Dolphins Sri Lanka by Anouk Ilangakoon	View
K.S. Natarajan	??-09-1889	SRI LANKA - South	Blue whale	Ambalagonda; single animal; 69 feet long.	whales & Dolphins Sri Lanka by Anouk Ilangakoon	View
Kumaran Sathasivam	01-09-2009	PAKISTAN - North	Blue whale	Abdul Rahim Rahimmurad, MMI message 205.	Gwader, Balochistan, Pakistan. http:--tech.groups.yahoo.com-group-marinemammalsofindia-message-205	View
Kumaran Sathasivam	21-12-2001	INDIA - Karnataka	Blue whale	Guijerbettu beach, Udupi district, Karnataka, 21 December 2001. Found live, local	Anoop A. Krishnan, Prathiba Rohit, A. P. Dineshbabu, T. Harish Nayak and S. Keparaju. 2004. Record of stranded whales along Karnataka coast. MFIS T&E Series 182, October-December 2004, p. 16.	View
Kumaran Sathasivam	17-07-2006	INDIA - Tamilnadu	Blue whale	Whale of 20 m total length on 17 July 2006, stranded at Kundugal, near Mandapa.	P. Jayashankar, B. Anoop, V.V. Afsal and A. Rajagopala. 2006. Species and sex of two baleen whales identified from their skin tissues using molecular approach. MFIS T&E 190, October-December 2006. V. V. Afsal and M. Rajagopalan, 2007. Stranding of whales along Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. MFIS T&E 191, January-March 2007, pp. 25-26.	View
-	18-10-1996	INDIA - Kerala	Blue whale	Stranding of 13 m specimen at Tirur beach	Anonymous (1987b) Photograph of a live Sousa chinensis caught in gillnet operated off Calicut. Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 71, back cover.	View
-	29-10-1995	INDIA - Kerala	Blue whale	10,489 kg of this species landed at Fisheries Harbour, Cochin.	Baby, K.G. (1996a) On the stranding of a Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus at Valappad beach, southwest coast of India.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 141, 20	View

* According to the current understanding of distribution, Fin, Minke and Sei whales are not present in the Northern Indian ocean.

Sightings and Strandings