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vations over 730 m (2400 ft) in cool, moist woodland habitats. 



Myocastor coypus bonairiensis (Geoffroy St. Hilaire), Nutria. Dis- 

 tribution in Georgia of this introduced species is poorly known, but it 

 appears restricted to swampy habitats in the south central counties. It is 

 known from Thomas, Brooks, Colquitt and Lowndes counties, and the 

 region of the Chattahoochee River north to Fort Gordon (J. Jenkins, 

 pers. comm.). 



Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville), Tropical Beaked Whale. A 

 single stranding record is known from Cumberland Island (Neuhauser 

 and Ruckdeschel 1978). 



Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais), Gervais' Beaked Whale. Known 

 from a single stranding on Ossabaw Island (Neuhauser and Ruckdeschel 

 1978). 



Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier), Goose-beaked Whale. Neuhauser and 

 Ruckdeschel (1978) reported six stranding records for this species. 



Kogia breviceps (Blainville), Pygmy Sperm Whale. Neuhauser and 

 Ruckdeschel (1978) reported 24 stranding events in Georgia. 



Kogia simus (Owen), Dwarf Sperm Whale. Known from eight 

 stranding events on Ossabaw, Cumberland and Little Cumberland 

 Islands (Neuhauser and Ruckdeschel 1978) and from Wassaw Island. 



Stenella plagiodon (Cope), Atlantic Spotted Dolphin. This species 

 is known only from sightings offshore. 



Steno bredanensis (Lesson), Rough-toothed Dolphin. One strand- 

 ing event involving two animals is known from Little Cumberland 

 Island (Richardson 1973). 



Tur slops truncatus (Montague), Bottle-nosed dolphin. Neuhauser 

 and Ruckdeschel (1978) reported 41 stranding events in Georgia. 



Pseudorca crassidens (Owen), False Killer Whale. Known from a 

 single stranding record on Tybee Island (Caldwell and Golley 1965). 



Globlcephala macrorhynchus (Gray), Short-finned Pilot Whale. 

 Neuhauser and Ruckdeschel (1978) reported 17 stranding events on the 

 Georgia coast. 



Balaenoptera edeni Anderso, Bryde's Whale. A 1978 stranding in 

 Chatham County represented the first record of this species for Georgia 

 (Neuhauser and Ruckdeschel 1978). 



Megaptera novaeangllae (Borowski), Hump-backed Whale. A sin- 

 gle stranding record on Sapelo Island is recorded (Neuhauser and 

 Baker 1974). Neuhauser and Ruckdeschel (1978) suggested that the 

 hump-backed whale may inhabit Georgia's coastal waters more fre- 

 quently than stranding records indicate. 



Balaena glaclalis (Borowski), Black Right Whale. Three stranding 

 records are known, one from "near Savannah" (Neuhauser and Ruckde- 

 schel 1978), one from Little St. Simons Island, and one from Ossabaw 



