Tursiops truncatus
(G. Montagu, 1821)
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Cetacea |
| Parvorder | : Odontoceti |
| Superfamily | : Delphinoidea |
| Family | : Delphinidae |
| Subfamily | : Delphininae |
| Genus | : Tursiops |
Species status
Authority citation
Montagu, G. 1821. Description of a new species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 3:75-82.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45888588Original name as described
Delphinus Truncatus
Other common names
Black Porpoise · Bottlenose Dolphin · Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:353a
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8311badb-f770-4c47-812e-975884c584abType locality
"in Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up the River Dart," Scotland, UK.
Biogeographic realm
Marine
Country distribution
Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belgium · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Brazil · Brunei · Bulgaria · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Republic of the Congo · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Croatia · Cuba · Curaçao · Cyprus · Cote d'Ivoire · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · Egypt · El Salvador · Falkland Islands · Fiji · France · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Georgia · Germany · Ghana · Greece · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Jamaica · Japan · Kenya · Kiribati · South Korea · Lebanon · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Malta · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mayotte · Mexico · Micronesia · Montenegro · Morocco · Namibia · Nauru · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Northern Marianas · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Puerto Rico · Romania · Russia · Réunion · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · São Tomé and Príncipe · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Seychelles · Singapore · Slovenia · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · Spain · Sri Lanka · Suriname · Syria · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · Togo · Tonga · Christmas Island · Trinidad and Tobago · Tunisia · Turkey · Turks and Caicos Islands · Ukraine · United Kingdom · United States · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · British Virgin Islands · United States Virgin Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Eritrea · Bahrain? · Democratic Republic of the Congo? · Equatorial Guinea? · Iran? · Iraq? · Jordan? · North Korea? · Kuwait? · Mauritius? · Montserrat? · Norfolk Island? · Qatar? · Sierra Leone? · Sudan? · East Timor? · Tokelau? · Tuvalu? · United Arab Emirates?
Subregion distribution
USA(AL,CA,DC,DE,FL,GA,HI,LA,MD,MI,NJ,NY,NC,SC,TX,VA,RI,MA,ME)
Taxonomy notes
tentatively includes gephyreus (Atlantic coast of South America) which was recently elevated to species status, but more recent studies have called it's species status into question and treated it as a subspecies, which is followed here; previously included T. erebennus; Tursiops as a whole is in need of even more comprehensive taxonomic revision using range wide data and any taxonomic arrangement for the genus should be considere tentative for now
Taxonomy notes citation
Wickert, J. C., von Eye, S. M., Oliveira, L. R., & Moreno, I. B. (2016). Revalidation of Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 (Cetartiodactyla: Delphinidae) from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Mammalogy, 97(6), 1728-1737. · Costa, A. P., Fruet, P. F., Secchi, E. R., Daura‐Jorge, F. G., Simões‐Lopes, P. C., Di Tullio, J. C., & Rosel, P. E. (2019). Ecological divergence and speciation in common bottlenose dolphins in the western South Atlantic. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 00, 1-17. · Costa, A. P., Mcfee, W., Wilcox, L. A., Archer, F. I., & Rosel, P. E. (2022). The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) ecotypes of the western North Atlantic revisited: an integrative taxonomic investigation supports the presence of distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. · Pratt, E. A., Beheregaray, L. B., Fruet, P., Tezanos-Pinto, G., Bilgmann, K., Zanardo, N., ... & Möller, L. M. (2023). Genomic divergence and the evolution of ecotypes in bottlenose dolphins (genus Tursiops). Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(11), evad199.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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