Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Tursiops

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tursiops*	Gervais, 1855	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: stompneusdolfyn; stumpneusdolfyn

Arabic: delfin kabir

Bokmål (Norwegian): tumler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Bulgarian: afаlа; Аfаlа; Афала sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Bulgarian PESI focal point

Catalan: dofí mular; molar

Croatian: dobri dupin

Danish: øresvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: tuimelaar sources: Camphuysen, Kees

English: bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose porpoise; bottlenosed dolphin; bottle-nosed dolphin; common bottlenose dolphin; Афаліна чорноморська sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Bottlenose dolphin; Bottle-nosed Dolphin sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: izurde handia

French: dauphin à gros nez; dauphin nesarnak; grand dauphin; grand souffleur; gros dauphin gris; nesarnark; oudre; souffleur; tursion; tursiops; tursiops nesarnak sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: grosser Tümmler; Großtümmler; hochcöpliger Tümmler; Tümmler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: rinodélfino; Ρινοδέλφινο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greenlandic: nezarnak

Indonesian: lumba-lumba hidung botol

Israel (Hebrew): dolphinan yam hatichon; דולפינן ים-התיכון sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: delfino maggiore; delfino soffiatore; tursio; tursione; tursiope ; tursiope troncato sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: bando iruka; handa iruka

Kalaallisut: nezarnak

Korean: keun-dolgorae

Latvian: lielaa-iuras-tsuuka

Lithuanian: afalina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasi: lambondriaka aman'oron-tavoahangy

Maltese: delfin geddumu qasir

Norwegian: tandthöije; tumler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: tumler sources: Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., 3:75, pl. 3

Norwegian Nynorsk: tumlar sources: Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., 3:75, pl. 3

Nynorsk (Norwegian): tumlar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: butlonos zwyczajny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: boto-da-tainha; délfin-mular; golfinho-flíper; golfinho-nariz-de-garrafa; roaz; roaz-corvineiro; toninha

Romanian: tursiops

Russian: afalina; afalina (in Black Sea); bolshoi delfin; chernyi delfin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: velika pliskovka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: bufeo; delfin de las islas; delfín mular; delfin nariz de botella; delfin pico de botella; guamachin; mular; pez mular; tursio; tursion

Swedish: oresvin; öresvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Tamil: odan; ongil (dolphins in general); ongole

Telugu: gadamu

Turkish: afale; afalina

Ukrainian: Афаліна; Афаліна чорноморська sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: dolffin trwyn potel; dolffin trwynbwl

Literature

original description	Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 3:75--82.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
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.
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
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, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (165 publications)
Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (888043 nucleotides; 23131 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137111