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Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

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).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1768Delphinus tursio Gunnerus
1789Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre
1804Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède p. 307
1821Delphinus truncatus Montagu p. 75 figs. Plate 3
1828Phocoena compressicauda Lesson p. 199
1844Delphinus catalania Gray
1846Tursiops communis Fitzing p. 75
1846Delphinus compressicauda Gray p. 37
1846Delphinus cymodoce Gray p. 38
1846Delphinus eurynome Gray p. 38
1846Delphinus metis Gray p. 38
1846Tursiops eurynome Gray p. 38 figs. Pl. 17
1850Delphinus compressicauda Gray p. 109
1850Delphinus eurynome Gray p. 111
1850Delphinus cymodoce Gray p. 113
1850Delphinus metis Gray p. 115
1865Delphinus erebennus Cope p. 281
1866Tursio catalania Gray p. 215
1866Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 215
1866Tursio eurynome Gray p. 215
1866Tursio metis Gray p. 215
1866Tursio truncatus Gray p. 215
1866Tursio metis Gray p. 256
1866Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 257
1866Tursio eurynome Gray p. 261
1866Tursio catalania Gray p. 262
1866Tursio compressicauda Gray p. 266
1868Tursio catalania Gray p. 6
1868Tursio cymodoce Gray p. 6
1868Tursio eurynome Gray p. 6
1868Tursio metis Gray p. 6
1868Tursio truncatus Gray p. 6
1885Tursiops tursio True p. 338
1886Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden p. 100
1887Tursiops tursio Lydekker p. 81
1889Tursiops coerulescens Giglioli
1891Tursiops tursio Newton p. 80
1898Tursiops compressicauda Trouessart p. 1030
1898Tursiops parvimanus Trouessart p. 1031
1903Tursiops truncatus True p. 314
1904Tursiops parvimanus Trouessart p. 764
1904Tursiops tursio Trouessart p. 764
1908Tursiops gephyreus Lahille
1909Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker
1911Tursiops nuuanu Andrews
1912Tursiops tursio Turner p. 135
1934Tursiops maugeanus Iredale and Troughton
1940Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov
1952Tursiops truncatus Sherman p. 99
1961Delphinus nesarnack Hershkovitz p. 550
1963Tursiops truncatus Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1966Tursiops truncatus Hershkovitz p. 52
1990Tursiops truncatus Barnes p. 11
1991Tursiops truncatus Vidal p. 5
1995Tursiops truncatus Mead and Potter p. 37
1998Tursiops truncatus Rice p. 105
2005Tursiops truncatus Mead and Brownell p. 734
2008Tursiops truncatus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2008Tursiops truncatus Uhen et al. p. 594
2011Tursiops truncatus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2012Delphinus truncatus Hassanin et al. p. 43 figs. Fig. 1
2013Tursiops truncatus Moura et al. p. 870 figs. Figure 2
2013Tursiops truncatus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2016Tursiops gephyreus Wickert et al. p. 1729
2021Tursiops truncatus Jefferson p. 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyDelphininae
genusTursiops
speciestruncatus()

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Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 [common bottlenose dolphin]
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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