From: Dolphin whistles can be useful tools in identifying units of conservation
Species | GeographicRegion | Location | Genetics |
---|---|---|---|
Bottlenose dolphin | Atlantic Ocean | Azores Islands | Considered as a single Atlantic population [53] |
Canary Islands | |||
Mediterranean Sea | Tyrrhenian Sea | Considered as Western Mediterranean, differentiated from Alboran Sea [54] | |
Provencal Sea | |||
Spanish waters | |||
Alboran Sea | Considered as independent from the Western Mediterranean [54] | ||
Short-beaked common dolphin | Atlantic Ocean | Azores Islands | Considered as a single Atlantic population [55] |
Canary Islands | |||
Mediterranean Sea | Tyrrhenian Sea | Considered as Western Mediterranean, differentiated from Alboran Sea [56] | |
Sardinian waters | |||
Alboran Sea | Considered as independent from the Western Mediterranean [56] | ||
Striped dolphin | Atlantic Ocean | Azores Islands | |
Canary Islands | |||
Mediterranean Sea | Ligurian Sea | Considered as Western Mediterranean, differentiated from Alboran Sea [57,58,59] | |
Tyrrhenian Sea | |||
Provencal Sea | |||
Balearic waters | |||
Spanish waters | |||
Alboran Sea | Considered as independent from the Western Mediterranean [59, 60] |