Osteological differences between two sympatric forms of bottlenose dolphins (genus Tursiops) in Chinese waters

By J. Y. Wang, L. Chou, B. White. 2000

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Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in California waters: Cranial differentiation of coastal and offshore ecotypes (2011, methodology): “Kemper (2004) found no significant differences between sexes in a mixed sample of 65 common bottlenose dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (T. aduncus) from South Australia, and Wang et al. (2000) found none in 17 males and 14 females from China.”
Dolphin sympatric ecology (2005, background): “…bottlenose dolphins preferred the coastal and shallow waters of the continental shelf, feeding upon benthic or reef-dwelling fish and cephalopods, whereas Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins favoured offshore waters, feeding mostly on schooling epipe- lagic and mesopelagic species (Wang et al. 2000).”
High gene flow in oceanic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of the North Atlantic (2007, unknown): “Some coastal populations appeared to be morphologically and genetically sufficiently distinct to be classified as a separate species, such as T. aduncus in Chinese waters (Wang et al. 1999; Wang et al. 2000) and a potential third species along the South African coast (Natoli et al. 2004).”