Tursiops truncatus gillii Dall 1873 (common bottlenose dolphin)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative combinations: Tursiops gilli, Tursiops gillii
Belongs to Tursiops truncatus according to D. W. Rice 1998
See also Barnes 1977, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson 2021 and Trouessart 1898
Sister taxa: Tursiops truncatus truncatus, Tursiops tursio cymodoce, Tursiops tursio metis
Type specimen: USNM 13022, a mandible. Its type locality is Monterey, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in California.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Monterey