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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1682378Original 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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