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WoRMS taxon details
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) AphiaID: 137111
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Tursiops Gervais, 1855 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Delphinus (Tursio) cymodoce Burmeister, 1867 (synonym)
Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828 (synonym)
Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865 (synonym)
Delphinus metis [No.1] Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 (synonym)
Delphinus nesarnak Reichenback, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus parvimanus Lutken, 1887 (synonym)
Delphinus troncatus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 (basionym)
Delphinus tursio Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym)
Delphinus tursio obtusus Schlegel, 1862 (synonym)
Tursio cymodice Figueira, 1894 (synonym)
Tursio metis Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Tursio truncatus Gray, 1843 (synonym)
Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 (synonym)
Tursiops gilli Dall, 1873 (synonym)
Tursiops gillii Scammon, 1874 (synonym)
Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym)
Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911 (synonym)
Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886 (synonym)
Tursiops subridens Flower, 1884 (synonym)
Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821 (Spelling mistake)
Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962 (synonym)
Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Tursiops tursio Gervais, 1855 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 3:75--82. [details]
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]
additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]
additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]
additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]
additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
from synonym: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular Names | | |
Direct child taxa [show all] | | Subspecies Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940
Subspecies Tursiops truncatus aduncus Hershkovitz, 1966 (nomen dubium)
Subspecies Tursiops truncatus truncatus Hershkovitz, 1966 (nomen dubium)
Subspecies Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962 accepted as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Subspecies Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957 accepted as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Adriatic Sea [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Blankenberge [details]
Eritrea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Ionian sea [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Schelde estuary [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wenduine [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Wimereux (not certain) [details]
World Oceans [details]
Zeeland Banks [details]
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| Links | | Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (165 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (888043 nucleotides; 23131 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: fish, cephalopods, invertebrates [details]
Dimensions: Length: male 2.4-3.8 m (8-12.5'), females 2.3-3.7 m (7.5-12'), at birth .7 m (2.5') [details]
Distribution: circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details]
Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]
Habitat: tropical to temperate, coastal [details]
Habitat: inshore and offshore [details]
Holotype: Skull in the British Museum (Natural History), London: GERM 353a collected July 3, 1814. Number 353h-62.7.18.15 given by Herskovitz (1966) was in error; it refers to a specimen without data purchased in 1862. [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]
Synonymy: The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus has been only recently recognized as a separate species. Although an attempt has been made here to limit synonyms to those taxa described from the geographical region of non-overlap of T. truncatus with T. aduncus, with further research, some of the names now in the synonymy may be relegated to T. aduncus. A number of nominal species that relate to either one or the other of the two bottlenose dolphins (because they were named from the region of overlap of the two species) are listed in the database as "incertae sedis" and are not included above. Where holotype specimens exist for these, they have not yet been examined to determine their identity. [details]
Type locality: Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up River Dart, Devonshire, England, UK. [details]
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| Images | |
Tursiops truncatus - bottlenose dolphin added on 2006-06-26 - author: Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) ( ) qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 17:52:00 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 34) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:28:51 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 35) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:29:01 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:29:13 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:29:35 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:29:49 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 18:30:05 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2010-03-15 18:14:32 |
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Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:41:04 |
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Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:41:59 |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2012-01-31 - author: VLIZ collection qualitystatus: not checked |
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Tursiops truncatus added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137111 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137111 on 2013-05-19 |
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