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Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, Gershwin, Thompson, Austin, Owen & McKechnie, 2011 
AphiaID: 584858

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
Rank Species
Parent Tursiops Gervais, 1855
Source Not documented
Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Burrunan dolphin  [details]
Environment marine
Link To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
Note  This may prove to be an unaccepted taxon. There are no diagnostic morphological characters, and the molecular analyses are weak. The series was compared only to Australian series of bottlenose dolphins, and cranial measurements overlapped in all cases, even with the small samples examined. The mtDNA contral region was used but it has been shown to be ineffective in species phylogeny, and the nodes in the cytochrome b analysis were only weakly supported. STRUCTURE is also an inappropriate analysis at the supraspecific level. Average differences and clustering in multivariate analyses were taken to indicate species-level difference, not in accord with conventional morphologically-based systematics. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:584858
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2011-10-27 20:23:47Z  created  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, Gershwin, Thompson, Austin, Owen & McKechnie, 2011. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=584858 on 2013-05-25
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