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Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin)
Taxonomy
Tursio truncatus was named by Gray (1866) [Hershkovitz (1966) states that Delphinus nesarnack (Lacepede, 1804) represents the same species, but that no one has used the name since it's inception. Thus, he conserves Tursiops truncatus for this species.]. It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 353 h-62.7.18.15, a skull. Its type locality is Duncannon Pool, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Tursio.
It was recombined as Delphinus truncatus by Montagu (1821) and Hassanin et al. (2012); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus tursio by Gray (1846) and Gray (1846); it was synonymized subjectively with Tursiops tursio by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); it was recombined as Tursiops truncatus by True (1903), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1990), Vidal (1991), Mead and Potter (1995), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013), Moura et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
It was recombined as Delphinus truncatus by Montagu (1821) and Hassanin et al. (2012); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus tursio by Gray (1846) and Gray (1846); it was synonymized subjectively with Tursiops tursio by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); it was recombined as Tursiops truncatus by True (1903), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1990), Vidal (1991), Mead and Potter (1995), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013), Moura et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1768 | Delphinus tursio Gunnerus |
1789 | Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre |
1804 | Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède p. 307 |
1821 | Delphinus truncatus Montagu p. 75 figs. Plate 3 |
1828 | Phocoena compressicauda Lesson p. 199 |
1844 | Delphinus catalania Gray |
1846 | Tursiops communis Fitzing p. 75 |
1846 | Delphinus compressicauda Gray p. 37 |
1846 | Delphinus cymodoce Gray p. 38 |
1846 | Delphinus eurynome Gray p. 38 |
1846 | Delphinus metis Gray p. 38 |
1846 | Tursiops eurynome Gray p. 38 figs. Pl. 17 |
1850 | Delphinus compressicauda Gray p. 109 |
1850 | Delphinus eurynome Gray p. 111 |
1850 | Delphinus cymodoce Gray p. 113 |
1850 | Delphinus metis Gray p. 115 |
1865 | Delphinus erebennus Cope p. 281 |
1866 | Tursio catalania Gray p. 215 |
1866 | Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 215 |
1866 | Tursio eurynome Gray p. 215 |
1866 | Tursio metis Gray p. 215 |
1866 | Tursio truncatus Gray p. 215 |
1866 | Tursio metis Gray p. 256 |
1866 | Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 257 |
1866 | Tursio eurynome Gray p. 261 |
1866 | Tursio catalania Gray p. 262 |
1866 | Tursio compressicauda Gray p. 266 |
1868 | Tursio catalania Gray p. 6 |
1868 | Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 6 |
1868 | Tursio eurynome Gray p. 6 |
1868 | Tursio metis Gray p. 6 |
1868 | Tursio truncatus Gray p. 6 |
1885 | Tursiops tursio True p. 338 |
1886 | Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden p. 100 |
1887 | Tursiops tursio Lydekker p. 81 |
1889 | Tursiops coerulescens Giglioli |
1891 | Tursiops tursio Newton p. 80 |
1898 | Tursiops compressicauda Trouessart p. 1030 |
1898 | Tursiops parvimanus Trouessart p. 1031 |
1903 | Tursiops truncatus True p. 314 |
1904 | Tursiops parvimanus Trouessart p. 764 |
1904 | Tursiops tursio Trouessart p. 764 |
1908 | Tursiops gephyreus Lahille |
1909 | Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker |
1911 | Tursiops nuuanu Andrews |
1912 | Tursiops tursio Turner p. 135 |
1934 | Tursiops maugeanus Iredale and Troughton |
1940 | Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov |
1952 | Tursiops truncatus Sherman p. 99 |
1961 | Delphinus nesarnack Hershkovitz p. 550 |
1963 | Tursiops truncatus Scheffer and Rice p. 7 |
1966 | Tursiops truncatus Hershkovitz p. 52 |
1990 | Tursiops truncatus Barnes p. 11 |
1991 | Tursiops truncatus Vidal p. 5 |
1995 | Tursiops truncatus Mead and Potter p. 37 |
1998 | Tursiops truncatus Rice p. 105 |
2005 | Tursiops truncatus Mead and Brownell p. 734 |
2008 | Tursiops truncatus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
2008 | Tursiops truncatus Uhen et al. p. 594 |
2011 | Tursiops truncatus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
2012 | Delphinus truncatus Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1 |
2013 | Tursiops truncatus Moura et al. p. 870 figs. Figure 2 |
2013 | Tursiops truncatus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
2016 | Tursiops gephyreus Wickert et al. p. 1729 |
2021 | Tursiops truncatus Jefferson p. 29 |
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Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 [common bottlenose dolphin]
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Tursiops truncatus gillii Dall 1873
Tursiops truncatus truncatus Hershkovitz 1966
Invalid names: Delphinus compressicauda Lesson 1828 [synonym], Delphinus cymodoce Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus erebennus Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus eurynome Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus metis Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus tursio Gunnerus 1768 [synonym], Tursio catalania Gray 1844 [synonym], Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker 1909 [synonym], Tursiops gephyreus Lahille 1908 [synonym], Tursiops maugeanus Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym], Tursiops nuuanu Andrews 1911 [synonym], Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden 1886 [synonym], Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov 1940 [synonym], Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre 1789 [synonym], Tursiops tursio obtusus Schlegel 1862 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available