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WoRMS taxon details
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
AphiaID: 137111
AphiaID: 137111
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Tursiops (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parent | Tursiops Gervais, 1855 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Delphinus (Tursio) cymodoce Burmeister, 1867 (synonym) Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828 (synonym) Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865 (synonym) Delphinus metis [No.1] Gray, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Delphinus nesarnak Reichenback, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus parvimanus Lutken, 1887 (synonym) Delphinus troncatus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym) Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 (basionym) Delphinus tursio Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Delphinus tursio obtusus Schlegel, 1862 (synonym) Tursio cymodice Figueira, 1894 (synonym) Tursio metis Gray, 1868 (synonym) Tursio truncatus Gray, 1843 (synonym) Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 (synonym) Tursiops gilli Dall, 1873 (synonym) Tursiops gillii Scammon, 1874 (synonym) Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym) Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911 (synonym) Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886 (synonym) Tursiops subridens Flower, 1884 (synonym) Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821 (Spelling mistake) Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962 (synonym) Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957 (synonym) Tursiops tursio Gervais, 1855 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 3:75--82. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa | Subspecies Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 Subspecies Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962 accepted as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Subspecies Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957 accepted as Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Subspecies Tursiops truncatus aduncus Hershkovitz, 1966 (nomen dubium) Subspecies Tursiops truncatus truncatus Hershkovitz, 1966 (nomen dubium) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Blankenberge [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Schelde estuary [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] Tanzania [details] Wenduine [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] World Oceans [details] Zeeland Banks [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank Marine Life Information Network - UK To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: fish, cephalopods, invertebrates [details] Dimensions: Length: male 2.4-3.8 m (8-12.5'), females 2.3-3.7 m (7.5-12'), at birth .7 m (2.5') [details] Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details] Distribution: circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details] Habitat: tropical to temperate, coastal [details] Habitat: inshore and offshore [details] Holotype: Skull in the British Museum (Natural History), London: GERM 353a collected July 3, 1814. Number 353h-62.7.18.15 given by Herskovitz (1966) was in error; it refers to a specimen without data purchased in 1862. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details] Synonymy: The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus has been only recently recognized as a separate species. Although an attempt has been made here to limit synonyms to those taxa described from the geographical region of non-overlap of T. truncatus with T. aduncus, with further research, some of the names now in the synonymy may be relegated to T. aduncus. A number of nominal species that relate to either one or the other of the two bottlenose dolphins (because they were named from the region of overlap of the two species) are listed in the database as "incertae sedis" and are not included above. Where holotype specimens exist for these, they have not yet been examined to determine their identity. [details] Type locality: Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up River Dart, Devonshire, England, UK. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137111 on 2010-09-02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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