Tursiops erebennus

(Cope, 1865)

Tamanend's 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

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Cope, E.D. 1865-12-26. Second contribution to a history of the Delphinidæ. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 17:278-281.

Original name as described

Delphinus erebennus

Other common names

Bottlenose Dolphin

Type material

ANSP 3020

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Red Bank, below opposite this city [Philadelphia], New Jersey, United States.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

United States · Canada? · Bahamas?

Subregion distribution

USA(DC,DE,FL,GA,MD,NJ,NY,NC,SC,TX,VA,RI,MA,ME)

Taxonomy notes

split from T. truncatus; 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

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, 196(4), 1608-1636.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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