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Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. vol.3 p.75, pl. 3

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Cetacea
family
Delphinidae
genus
Tursiops
species
Tursiops truncatus

Name

Synonyms
Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828
Delphinus cymodoce Burmeister, 1867
Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865
Delphinus metis Gray, 1846
Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804
Delphinus nesarnak Reichenback, 1846
Delphinus parvimanus Lutken, 1887
Delphinus troncatus F.Cuvier, 1836
Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821
Delphinus tursio Bonnaterre, 1789
Delphinus tursio Gunnerus, 1768
Delphinus tursio obtusus Schlegel, 1862
Phocoena compressicauda (Lesson, 1828)
Tursio compressicauda (Lesson, 1828)
Tursio cymodice Figueira, 1894
Tursio cymodoce Gray, 1868
Tursio metis Gray, 1868
Tursio truncatus Gray, 1843
Tursiops coerulescens Giglioli, 1889
Tursiops communis Fitzing, 1846
Homonyms
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Tursiops truncatus (Gray, 1866)
Common names
Black Porpoise in English
Black Porpoise in English
Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in English
Bottle-nosed Dolphin in English
Bottle-nosed Dophin, Common Bottle-nosed Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin, Tuyiin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin, tuyiin in English
Bottlenose Dolphin; Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin (ponticus) in English
Bottlenose Dolphin; Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin (ponticus) in English
Bottlenose dolphin in language.
Bottlenosed Dolphin in English
Bottlenosed Dolphin in English
Bottlenosed Dolphin in English
Common Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Common Bottlenose Dolphin in English
Delfin mular in language.
Delfín mular in Spanish
Delfín pico de botella | delfín negro in Spanish
Delfín tonina in Spanish
Delfín tonina in Spanish
Grand Dauphin in French
Grand Dauphin in French
Grand dauphin commun, Grand Dauphin in French
GroRer Tummler in German
Grosse Tümmler, Grosstümmler in German
Großer Tümmler in German
Großtümmler in German
Ponticus in English
Tuimelaar in Dutch
Tursiope troncato in Italian
bottle-nosed dophin, common bottle-nosed dolphin in English
common bottlenose dolphin in English
common bottlenose dolphin in English
common bottlenose dolphin in English
grand dauphin, souffleur, dauphin à gros nez in French
ponticus in English
tuimelaar in Dutch
Öresvin in Swedish
Øresvin in Danish
Øresvin in Danish
Афаліна in Ukrainian
Афаліна in Ukrainian

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Bjärvall & Ullström (2005) Däggdjur. Alla europas arter i text och bild.
  3. COMBATT A y E GONZÁLEZ. 2006. Ocurrencia y distribución del delfín nariz de botella Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) en las costas de Dibulla, baja Guajira, durante el periodo de agosto a diciembre de 2005. Trabajo de grado, Biología Marina, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, 60 pp ref_scmas0276
  4. Costa, A. P. B., F. I. Archer, P. E. Rosel, and W. F. Perrin, 2022: Tursiops truncatus nuuanu, a new subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin from the eastern tropical Pacific. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 30. 213-229.
  5. Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259. 10.5479/si.03629236.246
  6. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
  7. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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  9. King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
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  12. Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743.
  13. Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1. 723-743.
  14. Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
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  18. Sokolov, V. E., and E. V. Romanenko, eds., 1997: null. The Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus ponticus: Morpohology, Physiology, Acoustics, Hydrodynamics. 672.
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  20. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
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