Tursiops truncatus

Tursiops truncatus truncatus, Chanonry Point, Inner Moray Firth, Scotland

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: Großer 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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