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Tursiops truncatus
(Montagu, 1821)
- bottle-nosed dolphin
(mammal)
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Tursiops (Genus) - bottle-nosed dolphins
..Tursiops truncatus (Species) - bottle-nosed dolphin
....Tursiops truncatus gilli (Subspecies)
....Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Subspecies) - Black Sea bottlenose dolphin
....Tursiops truncatus truncatus (Subspecies)
Authorship
Original name
:
Montagu, 1821:75, pl. 3.
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:
Subsequent generic combination
:
Types
Type, by original designation, of
:
Tursiops
(Genus)
Gervais, 1855
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Tursiops truncatus truncatus
(Montagu, 1821)
Synonyms
Synonymous name (subjective)
:
Tursiops aduncus
(Ehrenberg, 1832)
Ref:
J.G. Mead & R.L. Brownell Jr., 1993
: 357.
Synonymous name (subjective)
:
Tursiops gilli
Dall, 1873
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
: 118.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
tuimelaar
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
bottle-nosed dolphin
:
bottlenose dolphin
Ref:
1994
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