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The objective of this study is to provide decision makers in the European Commission and other partner countries with sufficient information to identify European Commission cooperation activities with specific environmental objectives and to establish environmental safeguards for other activities.

In this report we present the results of the genetic analysis of a skin sample collected from a stranded Kogia sp. found in the Upolu island of Samoa. Because the external examination did not assigned it unequivocally to any of the two species of the genus Kogia, that is the dwarf sperm whale K sima2 or the pygmy sperm whale K. breviceps. the analysis was focused on the species identification based on molecular markers.