December 2005 ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHIN (Stenella frontalis): Western North Atlantic Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Spotted Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.9201; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao2005doas-wn.pdf

There are two species of spotted dolphin in the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis, formerly S. plagiodon, and the pantropical spotted dolphin, S. attenuata (Perrin et al. 1987). The Atlantic spotted dolphin occurs in two forms which may be distinct sub-species (Perrin...