Whales, dolphins or fishes? The ethnotaxonomy of cetaceans in São Sebastião, Brazil

Table 4 Citations of the most frequent cetaceans' species according to fishers from São Sebastião and records of the same species incidentally captured or stranded in the studied area (from September 1994 to September 2006).

Cetacean species	Records of dead cetaceans (1994–2006)*	Cetaceans' citations by fishers	χ²	P
M. novaeangliae	6	38	23.273	< 0.0001**
T. truncatus	14	66	33.80	< 0.0001**
S. bredanensis	6	16	4.545	0.0550
S. frontalis	8	27	10.314	0.0023
S. guianensis	30	65	12.895	0.0005**
P. blainvillei	49	71	4.033	0.0552
Total	113	283

*Data from 12 years of monitoring in the studied area by 'Projeto SOS Mamíferos Marinhos' team (S.S. unpublished data, 2006)
Notes: Ho: number of citations is proportional to the number of records for each species. **Significant P value, Ho is rejected.

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