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SC/68B/SM/11
Resource ID
17454
Access
Open
Document Number
SC/68B/SM/11
Full Title
Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins: conservation status update, working in progress and follow up on the previous SC66b/SM recommendations
Author
Pedro F. Fruet, Fabio Daura-Jorge, Rodrigo Cezar Genoves, Pedro Volkmer de Castilho, Paula Laporta, Juliana C. Di Tullio, Els Vermeulen, Leonardo Berninsone, Mariano Coscarella, Mauricio Failla and Miguel Iniguez
Publisher
International Whaling Commission
Publication Year
2020
Abstract
The Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus) is endemic to the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (SWA), with a restricted and fragmented coastal distribution ranging from southern Brazil to Central Argentina. Two Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) are recognized: one comprising bottlenose dolphins from Central Argentina and a second ranging from southern Brazil to Uruguay, comprised by at least five Management Units (MU) (Figure 1). There are no abundance estimates available for the entire subspecies or ESU’s, but some MUs are very small (