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11th MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Quito, Ecuador, 4-9 November 2014 Agenda Item 24.1 CMS CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES Distribution: General UNEP/CMS/COP11Doc.24.1.1 11 August 2014 Original: English Proposal FOR THE INCLUSION OF THE Mediterranean Subpopulation of CuvieRs BEAKED WHALE (Ziphius cavirostris) In CMS Appendix I PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION OF SPECIES ON THE APPENDICES OF THE CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS A. PROPOSAL: Inclusion of the Mediterranean subpopulation of Cuvier′s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) in Appendix I B. PROPONENT: The European Union and its 28 Member States C. SUPPORTING STATEMENT 1. Taxon Classis Mammalia 1.2 Ordo Cetartiodactyla 1.3 Familia Ziphiidae 1.4 Species Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier, 1823) 1.5 Common names Cuvier′s beaked whale; Goose beaked whale 2. Biological data 2.1 Distribution Cuvier′s beaked whale is the most widely distributed species of the family Ziphiidae, with a cosmopolitan presence in most oceans in cold, temperate and tropical waters excepting polar and subpolar waters (Leatherwood Reeves 1983). The northern limits of its distribution are the Aleutian Islands and Alaska in the Pacific and Massachusetts and the Shetlands in the Atlantic; it also inhabits the Mediterranean Sea. In the southern hemisphere it reaches Tierra del Fuego in South America, Cape Providence in South Africa, Tasmania, and south of New Zealand (Rice 1998). Beaked whales inhabit deep waters that are usually found far from the coast and little is known about their offshore distribution. Resident or partially resident populations of Cuvier′s beaked whales have been found in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea) (Revelli et al. 2008), off Bahamas (Claridge Balcomb 1995), Hawaii (Baird et al. 2007; McSweeney et al. 2007) and El Hierro in the Canary Islands (Aguilar de Soto 2006). In the Mediterranean, Cuvier’s beaked whales hav