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The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) ecotypes of the western North Atlantic revisited: an integrative taxonomic investigation supports the presence of distinct species

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Costa, Ana P. B., Mcfee, Wayne, Wilcox, Lynsey A., Archer, Frederick I., Rosel, Patricia E. (2022): The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) ecotypes of the western North Atlantic revisited: an integrative taxonomic investigation supports the presence of distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 196 (4): 1608-1636, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac025

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