Tursiops truncatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Delphinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Mirordo: Euungulata Ordo: Artiodactyla Cladus: Artiofabula Cladus: Cetruminantia Cladus: Cetancodontamorpha Subordo: Whippomorpha Cladus: Cetaceamorpha Infraordo: Cetacea Cladus: Neoceti Parvordo: Odontoceti Cladus: Delphinida Superfamilia: Delphinoidea

Familia: Delphinidae
Genus: Tursiops
Species: T. truncatus
Subspecies (4): T. t. gephyreus – T. t. nuuanu – T. t. ponticus – T. t. truncatus

Name

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Holotype: BMNH 353a, skull, collected on 3 July 1814.
Type locality: “Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up the river Dart”.

Synonymy

Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821: 75 (protonym)

References

Primary references

Montagu G. 1821. Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 3: 75–82. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Rice, D.W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Special Publication Number 4. Society for Marine Mammalogy. 231 pp. Reference page.
Pratt, E.A.L., Beheregaray, L.B., Fruet, P., Tezanos-Pinto, G., Bilgmann, K., Zanardo, N., Diaz-Aguirre, F., Secchi, E.R., Freitas, T.R.O. & Möller, L.M. 2023. Genomic divergence and the evolution of ecotypes in bottlenose dolphins (genus Tursiops). Genome Biology and Evolution 15(11): evad199. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad199 Reference page.
Committee on Taxonomy. 2024. List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy. Retrieved from marinemammalscience.org. Reference page.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Stumpneusdolfyn
العربية: Delfin kabir
беларуская: Афаліна
български: Афала
català: Molar
Cymraeg: Dolffin trwynbwl
dansk: Øresvin
Deutsch: Tümmler
Ελληνικά: Ρινοδέλφινο
English: Common Bottlenose Dolphin
español: Tursion
euskara: Izurde handia
suomi: Pullokuonodelfiini
français: Grand dauphin
galego: Arroaz
עברית: דולפינן ים-התיכון
hrvatski: Dobri dupin
magyar: Palackorrú delfin
Bahasa Indonesia: Lumba-lumba hidung botol
íslenska: Stökkull
italiano: Tursiope troncato
日本語: ハンドウイルカ
kalaallisut: Nezarnak
한국어: Keun-dolgorae
Limburgs: Tummeleer
lietuvių: Afalina
latviešu: Lielaa-iuras-tsuuka
Malagasy: Lambondriaka aman'oron-tavoahangy
മലയാളം: Chankan eedi
Malti: Delfin geddumu qasir
Nederlands: Tuimelaar
norsk nynorsk: Tumler
norsk: Tumler
polski: Butlonos zwyczajny
português: Toninha
română: Tursiops
русский: Chernyi delfin
slovenščina: Velika pliskovka
svenska: Öresvin
தமிழ்: Ongole
తెలుగు: Gadamu
ไทย: โลมาปากขวดธรรมดา
Türkçe: Afalina
українська: Афаліна чорноморська
中文: 宽吻海豚

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