Western North Atlantic Coastal Morphotype Stocks STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Geographic Range and Coastal Morphotype Habitat

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Kenney; Long Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.174.7196; http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/tm213/pdfs/bodocoastal.pdf

The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York around the Florida peninsula and along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Based on differences in mitochondrial DNA haplotype frequencies, nearshore animals in the northern Gulf of...