@article{,

title = {Confirmed sightings of the Killer Whale, Orcinus orca, in Iranian waters (Mammalia: Cetacea)},

author = {Mohsenian, Nazanin,Moshiri, Hamed,Tollab, Amin,Bargahi, Hamid Reza,Braulik, Gill T.,Gemmell, Georgina L.,Collins, Tim},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2019.1596590},

issn = {0939-7140},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Zoology in the Middle East},

volume = {65},

number = {171},

pages = {280-282},

publisher = {Taylor & Francis},

keywords = {Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Iran, killer whale, Orcinus orca, Persian Gulf},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Omura's whale (Balaenoptera omurai) stranding on Qeshm Island, Iran: further evidence for a wide (sub)tropical distribution, including the Persian Gulf},

author = {Ranjbar, Sharif,Dakhteh, Mohammad Sayed,Van Waerebeek, Koen},

url = {http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/03/07/042614.full.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {bioRxiv},

number = {202},

abstract = {A small, juvenile rorqual live-stranded on Qeshm Island, Iran, in the northern Strait of Hormuz (Persian Gulf) in September 2007. Cause of stranding remains unknown but the whale (QE22.09.2007) showed no severe traumatic injuries nor was emaciated. Based on at least seven morphological features, considered diagnostic in combination, allowed a positive identification as Omura's whale Balaenoptera omurai. Features included diminutive body size (397 cm), a large number of ventral grooves (n=82) extending caudad of the umbilicus, a strongly falcate dorsal fin, asymmetric colouration of the head (especially lower jaws) reminiscent of fin whale, including three unilateral dark stripes, faint/incomplete lateral rostral ridges, record low number of short, broad baleen plates (204 in right jaw). The likelihood for the existence of a local B. omurai population in the eastern Persian Gulf or northern Arabian Sea seems higher than the wandering of a very young animal or mother/calf pair from any of the known distant distribution areas in the eastern Indian Ocean or SW Indian Ocean (Madagascar). This is the first record of B. omurai in the NW Indian Ocean.},

keywords = {Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea, balaenoptera omurai, Distribution, Iran, Persian Gulf, stranding},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Strandings and other records of mortality in the Arabian Sea},

author = {Collins, T.,Braulik, G.,Kiani, S.,Sutaria, D.,Rahim, Abdul.,Moshiri, Hamed.,Vanneyre, Laurence.,Baldwin, R.},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-01-01},

journal = {submitted as a working paper to the small cetacean sub-committee at the IWC, Panama, June 2012},

number = {349},

keywords = {Arabia, Iran, Oman Sea, Strandings},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {A retropsective investigation of two dolphin mass mortality events in Iran, autumn 2007},

author = {Braulik, G.,Savadkouhi, O.S.,Fadakar, S.,Mohammadi, H.,Brownell Jr, R.L.,Reeves, R. R.,Nabavi, M.B.,Fernandez, A.},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Zoology in the Middle East},

volume = {49},

number = {335},

pages = {13-26},

abstract = {During the autumn of 2007, two mass mortality events involving at least 152 small cetaceans were reported from southern Iran. Both events occurred on the Gulf of Oman coast near the town of Bandar Jask, and were separated by a month in time and more than 170 km in distance.

 

The first event, on 20 September 2007, involved 79 animals, probably all spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris). Dead animals, all exhibiting a similar degree of decomposition, drifted to shore along 13 km of coastline over a period of approximately 24 hours. These circumstances suggest that the mortality was caused by a single acute event at sea.  Several carcasses had evidence of traumatic injuries, the stranding event was spatially and temporally coincident with an active fishing ground, and other potentially bycaught and discarded species were found on the beach.  This pattern is generally consistent with the hypothesis that the dolphin mortality was caused by fishing operations, although the available data are insufficient to confirm that hypothesis unequivocally.

 

On 24 October 2007 there was a mass stranding of 73 live striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba).  The striped dolphin is a pelagic species believed to be rare in the Gulf of Oman.  The most likely explanation for this mass stranding is that the dolphin group was trapped by a falling tide among the complex sandbanks of the Kangan estuary. Striped dolphins are not normally found in shallow water or near shore, and their occurrence in this area is considered unusual. The factor or factors that caused them to enter this atypical habitat remain unknown.

 

The two mass mortality events involved different species and exhibited many different characteristics; there is no evidence to suggest that they were linked.  As the cetacean fauna of Iran is little known, it is hoped that the great national and international interest generated by these events will enhance Iran’s capacity and motivation for research and conservation of marine mammals.},

keywords = {Arabian Gulf, cetaceans, Gulf of Oman, Iran, mass mortality, Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, stranding},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Red tide bloom in Sistan and Baluchistan Province coastal waters (Oman Sea)},

author = {Anon.},

year  = {2003},

date = {2003-01-01},

journal = {Iranian Fisheries Research Organisation Newsletter},

volume = {37 (Autumn 2003)},

number = {298},

pages = {2},

keywords = {Arabian Sea, Iran, Red Tide},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Natosquilla},

author = {Anon.},

year  = {2003},

date = {2003-01-01},

journal = {Iranian Fisheries Research Organisation Newsletter},

volume = {37 (Autumn 2003)},

number = {16},

pages = {3},

keywords = {Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Iran, Red Tide},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Mangroves of Pakistan-Iran border near Gulf of Oman},

author = {Saifullah, S.M.,Rasool, F.},

year  = {2000},

date = {2000-01-01},

journal = {Pakistan Journal of Botany},

volume = {32},

number = {465},

pages = {227-234},

abstract = {only},

keywords = {Iran, Mangroves, Pakistan},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Vulnerable marine zones of Iran},

author = {Daanehkaar, Afhsin.},

year  = {1998},

date = {1998-01-01},

journal = {Mohit-e Zist Quarterly Magazine},

volume = {24},

number = {355},

pages = {28-38},

keywords = {Iran, Marine mammals, Oman Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea Turtles},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {A comparison of phytoplankton populations of the Arabian Sea during the Spring Intermonsoon and Southwest Monsoon of 1995 as described by HPLC-analyzed pigments},

author = {Latasa, Mikel.,Bidigare, Robert. R.},

year  = {1998},

date = {1998-01-01},

journal = {Deep-Sea Research II},

volume = {45},

number = {141},

pages = {2133-2170},

keywords = {Arabia, Arabian Sea, Iran, Pakistan, Phytoplankton, Upwelling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris from waters off the Sultanate of Oman and the Arabian Peninsula },

author = {Van Waerebeek,K.,Baldwin,R.M.,Gallagher M.,Papastavrou,V.},

year  = {1997},

date = {1997-01-01},

journal = {unknown},

number = {490},

abstract = {Confirmed coastal range states include Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Sultanate of Oman, Somalia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Egypt. },

keywords = {dolphin, dolphins, Iran, Oman, Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, United Arab Emirates},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Red tide in the Sea of Oman},

author = {Anon.},

year  = {1994},

date = {1994-01-01},

journal = {Iranian Fisheries Research and Training Organisation Newsletter},

volume = {6 (Autumn 1994)},

number = {293},

pages = {2},

keywords = {Arabian Sea, Iran, Red Tide},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Physical oceanography of the Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman: results from the Mt. Mitchell Expedition},

author = {Reynolds, M.},

year  = {1993},

date = {1993-01-01},

journal = {Marine Pollution Bulletin},

volume = {27},

number = {444},

pages = {35-59},

keywords = {Arabian Sea, Iran, oceanography, Oman Sea, Persian Gulf},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{,

title = {Neophocaena phocaenoides},

author = {al-Robaae, Khalaf.},

year  = {1975},

date = {1975-01-01},

journal = {Bulletin of the Basrah Natural History Museum},

volume = {2},

number = {286},

pages = {47-49},

keywords = {Arabian Gulf, Finless Porpoise, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}