Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Query: Bottlenose dolphin

Result: 7^th of 164

Subject:	Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Poster:	Phoby (phoby@notmyphoto.com)

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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Mother and juvenile bottlenose dolphins head to the seafloor. Tursiops truncatus

Image ID: nur02014, National Undersearch Research Program (NURP) Collection
Location: Temperate-Tropical Atlantic & Pacific Ocean
Photographer: M. Herko
Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP)

Photo Source:
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Scientific Name: Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Common Names: English – Common Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin French – Grand dauphin, Dauphin souffleur, Souffleur, Tursiops Spanish – Delfín Mular, Pez Mular, Tursión Synonyms: Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 Tursiops gilli Dall, 1873 Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911 Taxonomic Notes: All bottlenose dolphins around the world were previously recognized as T. truncatus, but recently the genus has been split into two species: T. truncatus and T. aduncus (the smaller Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin).

Bottlenose dolphin
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