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Molecular and Morphological Differentiation of Common Dolphins (Delphinus sp.) in the Southwestern Atlantic: Testing the Two Species Hypothesis in Sympatry.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Cunha Haydée A, de Castro Rocio Loizaga, Secchi Eduardo R, Crespo Enrique A, Lailson-Brito José, Azevedo Alexandre F, Lazoski Cristiano, Solé-Cava Antonio M
Abstract excerpt
The taxonomy of common dolphins (Delphinus sp.) has always been controversial, with over twenty described species since the original description of the type species of the genus (Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758). Two species and four subspecies are currently accepted, but recent molecular data have challenged this view. In this study we investigated the molecular taxonomy of common dolphins through analyses of...
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