| Black Sea bottlenose dolphin Temporal range: Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Delphinidae |
| Genus: | Tursiops |
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| Subspecies: | T. t. ponticus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940)
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The Black Sea bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ponticus) is a subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin. Recent findings suggest that they differ from the common bottlenose dolphin based on slight differences in cranial activity and genetic composition.[citation needed] This species occupies the Black Sea, and is less frequently studied than the more common Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
- ^ "Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus (Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 19 April 2022.