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SPECIES Tursiops truncatus

Author:Montagu, 1821.
Citation:Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., 3: 75, pl. 3.
Common Name:Bottlenose Dolphin
Type Locality:UK, England, Devonshire, "in Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up the River Dart".
Distribution:Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters, including the Black Sea.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:See Leatherwood and Reeves (1990). Ross and Cockroft (1990:124) considered aduncus to be synonymous with truncatus. Hall (1981:885-887) considered nesarnack and gillii distinct species, and synonymized truncatus with nesarnack. Opinion 1413 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1986) conserved truncatus Montagu, 1821 and suppressed nesarnack Lacépède, 1804. Rice (1998:106) provisionally recognized T. t. truncatus (Bottlenose Dolphin), T. t. ponticus (Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin) and T. t. gillii (Cowfish). The relationship of Tursiops gephyreus (South American Bottlenose Dolphin), to either T. truncatus or T. aduncus remains uncertain.
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SUBSPECIES truncatus

SUBSPECIES gillii

SUBSPECIES ponticus

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