Vol. 20 No. 2 (2025)

A pod of four orcas surface close to shore in the Gulf of California, Mexico.

This is 20(2) 2025 regular issue of LAJAM

Editor-in-Chief: Miriam Marmontel

Managing Editor: Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske

Layout Editor: Aileen Arango

Cover Photo: A pod of mammal-eating orcas in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Photo: Héctor Pérez Puig

Published: 2025-10-31

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Miriam Marmontel

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Articles

Stranding pattern and impact of fishing interaction in franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) in the north coast of São Paulo, Brazil – Contributions to the knowledge of the Franciscana Management Area (FMA IIa)

Tami Albuquerque Ballabio, Simone Baratto Leonardi , Beatriz Benaduce-Ortiz, Amanda Fernandes, Carla Gomes Bantel, Raquel Beneton Ferioli, Angélica Maria Sánchez-Sarmiento , Mariana Karam e Britto, Venancio Guedes de Azevedo, Hugo Gallo Neto , Carla Beatriz Barbosa

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- Ballabio et al LAJAM 20.2 2025
Identifying spatial conservation priorities for the giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Robert Benedict Wallace, Ariel Reinaga, Guido Ayala, Mark Bowler, Martín Buschiazzo, Sebastian Di Martino, Jessica Groenendijk, Hauke Hoops, Miriam Marmontel, Fernanda Michalski, Oscar Mujica, Karen Pérez, Maribel Recharte, Marcelo Rheingantz, Fernando Trujillo, Galo Zapata Ríos, Leydi V. Auccacusi Choque, María del Pilar Becerra Cardona, Salvador Boher Bentti, Jose L. Cartes, André Coelho, Benoit de Thoisy, Nicole Duplaix, Guillermo Gil, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Danielle Lima, Indranee Roopsind, Grazielle Soresini, Alvaro Soutullo, Victor Utreras B., Paul Van Damme, Talía Zamboni, Veronica Zambrana

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- Wallace et al LAJAM 20.2 2025
Four decades of pinniped records on the coast of São Paulo state, Southeastern Brazil (1981–2023)

Renata Balsamo Dias, Camila Carvalho de Carvalho , Renan Costa de Lima, Henrique Chupil, Fernando Siqueira Alvarenga, Andrea Maranho, Rosane Fernanda Farah, Carolina Pacheco Bertozzi, Carla Beatriz Barbosa, Hugo Gallo Neto

103-113
- Balsamo Dias et al LAJAM 20.2 2025
A preliminary study on mercury levels in the soft tissues of the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) and edible fish from southern Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

Yurasi Alejandra Briceño, Leonardo Sánchez, Fernando Trujillo, María Hernández, Valery John, Lorenzo Von Fersen

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- Briceño et al LAJAM 20.2 2025
Population estimate and demographic trends of humpback whale breeding stock G in Ecuador Insights from 15 years of land-based monitoring

Fernando Félix, Ben Haase

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- Félix et al LAJAM 20.2 2025
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) predation on mysticetes in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Juan-Pablo Gallo-Reynoso, Isai-David Barba-Acuña, Mercedes-Eugenia Guerrero-Ruiz, Eric Mellink, Janitzio Egido-Villarreal, Adriana-Estefanía Flores-Morán, Hector Pérez-Puig

136-143
- Gallo-Reynoso et al LAJAM 20.2 2025

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Extant emergence of Greater Caribbean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Virgin Islands: Hopes for the beginning of a natural recolonization process

Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Shannon Gore, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Chris Juredin, Clayton G. Pollock

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- Mignucci-Giannoni et al LAJAM 20.2 2025

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