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Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus (G. Montagu, 1821)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Delphinidae - dolphins »  genus Tursiops - Bottlenose Dolphins

Scientific synonyms

Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 o
Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828
Delphinus cymodice Burmeister, 1867
Delphinus (Tursio) cymodoce Burmeister, 1867
Delphinus cymodoce Burmeister, 1867
?Delphinus eurynome Gray, 1846
Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934
Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 o
Tursiops nesarnack (Lacépède, 1804)
Delphinus nesernack (misspelling) m o

Other names

= Bottlenosed Dolphin
= Common Bottlenose Dolphin

Images

Tursiops truncatus - Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: M. Herko

Tursiops truncatus - Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: Petr Baum

Tursiops truncatus - Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: Petr Baum

Tursiops truncatus - Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: Petr Baum

Tursiops truncatus ponticus - Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus ponticus - Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Tursiops truncatus ponticus - Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus ponticus - Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin

Author: Klaus Rudloff

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Intertaxon relationships

predator: Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) - Killer Whale

parasite: Synthesium neotropicale Ebert, Mülller, Marigo, Valente, Cremer & da Silva, 2017, Synthesium tursionis (Marchi, 1873)

Included taxa

Number of records: 5

subspecies Tursiops truncatus gephyreus Lahille, 1908 - Lahille’s bottlenose dolphin
subspecies Tursiops truncatus gillii Dall, 1873
subspecies Tursiops truncatus nuuanu Andrews, 1911
subspecies Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 - Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus ponticus

subspecies Tursiops truncatus truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Tursiops truncatus truncatus


Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [22563]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN Australian Faunal Directory [b61e9dd5-7259-4db2-87b9-0cb40eaba374]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)]
Data retrieved on: 8 February 2015
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006443]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Tursiops truncatus (G. Montagu, 1821)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Tursiops truncatus Montagu, 1821]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)]

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Explanations

o original combination

m misspelling