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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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-	09-05-1995	INDIA - Andhra Pradesh	Blue whale	Live male, 12.17 m long, caught in drift gillnet off Mangamaripeta, 12 km north.	Mohanraj, G., Somaraju, M.V. & Seshagiri Rao, C.V. (1995) A Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus landed at Mangamaripeta, north of Visakhapatnam.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 137, 17.	View
-	25-11-1994	INDIA - Tamilnadu	Blue whale	Carcass 13.30 m long found at Dhanushkodi.	Lipton, A.P., Diwan, A.D. Reghunathan, A. & Kasinathan, C. (1995) Frequent strandings of dolphins and whales along the Gulf of Mannar Coast.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 138, 11-14. et al., 1995	View
-	02-05-1993	INDIA - Kerala	Blue whale	26 m specimen stranded at Chellanam, Cochin.	James, P.S.B.R., Menon, N.G., & Pillai, N.G.K. (1993) On a Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus stranded at Chellanam, Cochin.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 122, 23-24.	View
-	10-12-1988	INDIA - Andhra Pradesh	Blue whale	Male washed ashore at Motupally, near Ramachandrapuram, Andhra Pradesh.	Nammalwar, P., Devadoss, P., Srinivasan, A., Chidambaram, L., Chandrasekara Rao, T. & Hanumantha Rao, A. (1989) On the strandings of whales along the Tamilnadu and Andhra coasts.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 102, 13-1	View
-	29-09-1988	INDIA - Andhra Pradesh	Blue whale	Female, 19.2 m long, washed ashore at Paravana, near Calicut.	Lal Mohan, R.S. (1992) Observations on the whales Balaenoptera edeni, B. musculus and Megaptera novaeangliae washed ashore along the Indian coast with a note on their osteology.Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 34, 253-255.	View
-	02-09-1985	INDIA - Kerala	Blue whale	Male, 10.3 m long, found at Chappa Beach, Narakkal, Cochin.	Somasekharan Nair, K.V. & Jayaprakash, A.A. (1987) On a Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus stranded at Chappa beach, Narakkal, Cochin, southwest coast of India.Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical & Extension Series, 71, 17-18.	View
-	14-04-1982	SRI LANKA - North	Blue whale	One observed on a cruise from Madras to Trincomalee.	Leatherwood, S. (1984) Further notes on cetaceans of Sri Lanka. Paper No.SC-36-06 presented to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee.12 pages.	View
-	04-10-1977	INDIA - Tamilnadu	Blue whale	Female 1012 m long entangled in gillnet alive at Pamban, Palk Bay.	James, P.S.B.R. & Soundararajan, R. (1979) On a Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus stranded at Krusadai Island in the Gulf of Mannar, with an up-to-date list and diagnostic features of whales stranded along the Indian coast.Journal of the Marine	View
-	20-12-1976	INDIA - Tamilnadu	Blue whale	Immature female 6.35 m long stranded at Ovari, Gulf of Mannar.	Marichamy, R., Rajapandian, M.E. & Srinivasan, A. (1984) The stranding of rorqual whale Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus) in the Gulf of Mannar.Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 26, 168-170.	View
-	02-04-1969	INDIA - Tamilnadu	Blue whale	Juvenile Balaenoptera sp. whale stranded off Tuticorin tentatively identified as a Blue whale.	Bensam, P., Vincent, S.G. & Mahadevan Pillai, P.K. (1972) On a rorqual, Balaenoptera sp. caught off Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar.Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 14, 886-887.	View

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

Sightings and Strandings