New northernmost distribution records of the Eastern South Pacific southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), including the first cases from Ecuador and northern Peru

• Cristina Castro Ayala ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cristinacastro@pacificwhale.org

  Affiliation Pacific Whale Foundation-Ecuador, Malecón Julio Izurieta, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5166-0389

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• Ana M. García-Cegarra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Recursos Biológicos, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile, Marine Megafauna Research Laboratory (CETALAB), Antofagasta, Chile

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• Piero Uceda-Vega,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation World Wildlife Foundation-WWF Peru, Lima, Peru

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• Luis Aguilar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Marine Megafauna Research Laboratory (CETALAB), Antofagasta, Chile

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• Shaleyla Kelez,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization

  Affiliations World Wildlife Foundation-WWF Peru, Lima, Peru, Ecoceanica, Lima, Peru

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3296-8721

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• Susannah J. Buchan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Center for Oceanographic Research COPAS COASTAL, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla, Concepción, Región del Bio, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla, Concepción, Región del Bio, Chile, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Raul Bitran, La Serena, Chile

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• Fernando Félix,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador, Museo de Ballenas, Salinas, Ecuador

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• Stephanie H. Stack,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pacific Whale Foundation, Wailuku, HI, United States of America, Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, QLD, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-8408

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• Koen Van Waerebeek

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Peruvian Centre for Cetacean Research, Centro Peruano de Estudios Cetológicos (CEPEC), Museo de Delfines, Lima, Peru, ProDelphinus, Miraflores, Lima, Peru

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