10 
Fishery Bulletin 1 12(1) 
Monthly totals of individual (inds.) 
North Carolina during 1997-2008. 
Table 4 
marine mammal strandings (n 
= 1847) recovered from 
1777 
reported events (evts.) in 
Species by family 
Jan 
Feb 
Mar 
Apr 
May 
Jun 
Jul 
Aug 
Sep 
Oct 
Nov 
Dec 
All 
inds 
All 
evts. 
Balaenidae 
Eubalaena glacialis 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
5 
5 
Balaenopteridae 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
1 
8 
8 
Balaenoptera borealis 
1 
1 
1 
Balaenoptera edeni 
1 
1 
1 
Balaenoptera physalus 
1 
1 
1 
3 
3 
Megaptera novaeangliae 
1 
2 
4 
4 
1 
2 
9 
23 
23 
Unknown balaenopterid 
1 
1 
1 
3 
3 
Delphinidae 
Delphinus delphis 
1 
12 
11 
9 
6 
1 
1 
5 
46 
40 
Feresa attenuata 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Globicephala macrorhynchus 
33 
3 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
1 
1 
45 
13 
Globicephala melas 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
6 
6 
Globicephala species 
3 
1 
1 
5 
5 
Grampus griseus 
1 
1 
3 
2 
3 
2 
2 
2 
2 
18 
18 
Lagenorhynchus acutus 
1 
5 
8 
14 
14 
Peponocephala electra 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Pseudorca crassidens 
1 
1 
1 
Stenella attenuata 
1 
2 
3 
3 
Stenella clymene 
1 
1 
1 
1 
4 
4 
Stenella coeruleoalba 
2 
6 
1 
6 
2 
1 
14 
1 
1 
2 
3 
39 
28 
Stenella frontalis 
4 
3 
1 
2 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
19 
18 
Stenella longirostris 
3 
3 
3 
Stenella species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Steno bredanensis 
2 
1 
3 
3 
Tursiops truncatus coastal 
73 
78 
105 
200 
172 
61 
33 
49 
31 
92 
94 
51 
1039 
1034 
Tursiops truncatus offshore 
2 
2 
1 
1 
6 
5 
1 
1 
19 
19 
Unidentified delphinid 
2 
1 
3 
5 
5 
2 
2 
2 
1 
23 
23 
Kogiidae 
Kogia breviceps 
3 
4 
3 
10 
1 
4 
6 
4 
9 
2 
6 
1 
53 
47 
Kogia sima 
7 
9 
1 
2 
3 
1 
2 
1 
2 
5 
2 
35 
27 
Kogia species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Phocidae 
Cystophora cristata 
2 
1 
2 
4 
2 
11 
11 
Halichoerus grypus 
2 
4 
3 
2 
1 
12 
12 
Pagophilus groenlandicus 
2 
2 
2 
1 
7 
7 
Phoca vitulina 
12 
18 
25 
8 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
2 
73 
73 
Unidentified phocid 
1 
3 
1 
5 
5 
Phocoenidae 
Phocoena phocoena 
2 
39 
139 
55 
14 
249 
249 
Physeteridae 
Physeter macrocephalus 
1 
2 
2 
2 
1 
8 
8 
Trichechidae 
Trichechus manatus 
1 
1 
1 
2 
5 
5 
Ziphiidae 
Mesoplodon densirostris 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1 
7 
6 
Mesoplodon europaeus 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1 
4 
1 
13 
13 
Mesoplodon mirus 
1 
1 
1 
Mesoplodon species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Ziphius cavirostris 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Unidentified ziphiid 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Unknown 
1 
1 
2 
3 
3 
3 
2 
0 
3 
3 
1 
1 
23 
23 
Total 
148 
191 
327 
337 
229 
86 
58 
92 
65 
110 
121 
83 
1847 
1777 
