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Table 2 Age groups of each cetacean host species based on body lengths from previously published literature

From: Determinants of lungworm specificity in five cetacean species in the western Mediterranean

Host species

Body length (cm)

Locality

References

Neonate

Suckling

Weaned

Stenella coeruleoalba

< 93

93–165

≥ 165

Mediterranean Sea

Pool et al. [7]

Striped dolphin

  

Tursiops truncatus

< 115

115–170

≥ 170

NW Atlantic Ocean

Read et al. [29]

Bottlenose dolphin

 

Struntz et al. [30]

Grampus griseus

< 140

140–230

≥ 230

Mediterranean Sea

Raduan et al. [31]

Risso's dolphin

NW Atlantic Ocean

Bloch et al. [32]

Delphinus delphis

< 93

93–160

≥ 160

Atlantic Ocean

Westgate and

Read [33]

Common dolphin