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WoRMS taxon detailsTursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
 137111 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137111)
accepted
Species
Delphinus (Tursio) cymodoce Burmeister, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus metis [No.1] Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus nesarnak Reichenback, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus parvimanus Lutken, 1887 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus troncatus F. Cuvier, 1836 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 · unaccepted (basionym)
Delphinus tursio Bonnaterre, 1789 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus tursio obtusus Schlegel, 1862 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursio cymodice Figueira, 1894 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursio metis Gray, 1868 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursio truncatus Gray, 1843 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops gilli Dall, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops gillii Scammon, 1874 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops subridens Flower, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821 · unaccepted (Spelling mistake)
Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tursiops tursio Gervais, 1855 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish,
(of Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 3: 75-82., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45888588#page/103/mode/1up [details]
Note Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up River Dart, Devonshire, England, UK. [details]
Distribution circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S
Distribution circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details] Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean
Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137111 on 2025-07-16
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 3: 75-82., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45888588#page/103/mode/1up [details] basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  Othercontext source (HKRMS)
Jefferson TA. & Hung SK. (2007). An updated, annotated checklist of the marine mammals of Hong Kong. Mammalia 71: pp 105-114. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Klatsky, L. J.; Wells, R. S.; Sweeney, J. C. (2007). Offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): movement and dive behavior near the Bermuda pedestal. Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, 88(1): 59-66 [details] context source (PeRMS) Reyes, J. (2009). Ballenas, delfines y otros cetáceos del Perú. Una fuente de información. <em>Lima- Perú. Squema-Ediciones.</em> 160 pp. [details] additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details] additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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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] Unreviewed
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 circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details] Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details] Habitat inshore and offshore [details] Habitat tropical to temperate, coastal [details]
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (130 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Delphinus troncatus F. Cuvier, 1836) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Delphinus compressicauda Lesson, 1828) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Tursio metis Gray, 1868) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (194 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Tursiops truncatus gilli Tomilin, 1962) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (252 publications) (from synonym Tursiops tursio Gervais, 1855) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Tursiops gillii Scammon, 1874) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (295 publications) (from synonym Delphinus tursio Bonnaterre, 1789) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) (from synonym Tursiops gilli Dall, 1873) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Delphinus parvimanus Lutken, 1887) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Delphinus tursio obtusus Schlegel, 1862) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Delphinus nesarnak Reichenback, 1846) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) (from synonym Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications) (from synonym Tursio truncatus Gray, 1843) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tursiops truncatus) To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908) To GenBank (698922 nucleotides; 58806 proteins) To GenBank (698922 nucleotides; 58806 proteins) (from synonym Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 2230 Tursiops truncatus skull) To NMNH Extant Collection (MMP STR 2271 Tursiops truncatus skull) To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 484983 Tursiops truncatus Radiograph 001) (from synonym Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957) To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 484983 Tursiops truncatus Radiograph 002) (from synonym Tursiops truncatus gillii Tomilin, 1957) To PESI To ITIS |
