Common bottlenose dolphin

Common bottlenose dolphin[1]
Common bottlenose dolphin breaching surfing a boat wake, a frequently seen activity in high traffic areas
Size compared to an average human
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Delphinidae
Genus: Tursiops
Species:
T. truncatus
Binomial name
Tursiops truncatus
(Montagu, 1821)
Subspecies[4]
Common bottlenose dolphin range (in blue)
Synonyms
  • Delphinus tursio Gunnerus, 1768
  • Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre, 1789
  • Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804
  • Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821
  • Phocoena compressicauda Lesson, 1828
  • Delphinus catalania Gray, 1844
  • Tursiops communis Fitzing, 1846
  • Delphinus compressicauda Gray, 1846
  • Delphinus cymodoce Gray, 1846
  • Delphinus eurynome Gray, 1846
  • Delphinus metis Gray, 1846
  • Tursiops eurynome Gray, 1846
  • Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865
  • Tursio catalania Gray, 1866
  • Tursio cymodoce Gray, 1866
  • Tursio eurynome Gray, 1866
  • Tursio metis Gray, 1866
  • Tursio truncatus Gray, 1866
  • Tursio compressicauda Gray, 1866
  • Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886
  • Tursiops coerulescens Giglioli, 1889
  • Tursiops compressicauda Trouessart, 1898
  • Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908
  • Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker, 1909
  • Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911
  • Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934
  • Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940

The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops. The common bottlenose dolphin is a very familiar dolphin due to the wide exposure it receives in human care in marine parks and dolphinariums, and in movies and television programs.[5] Common bottlenose dolphins inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world,[2][6] absent only from polar waters.[5][7][8][9] While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole.[1][10][11] As considerable genetic variation has been described within this species, even between neighboring populations, many experts think additional species may be recognized.[12][10]

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