STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE
There are two species of pilot whales in the Western Atlantic — the Atlantic or long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas, and the short-finned pilot whale, G. macrorhynchus. These species are difficult to identify to the species level at sea; therefore, some of the descriptive material below refe...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.5562 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao1998whpl-wn.pdf |