Bottlenose Dolphin – Tursiops truncatus

Tursiops truncatusMontagu, 1821

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

See Leatherwood and Reeves (1990). Ross and Cockroft (1990:124) considered aduncus to be synonymous with truncatus. Hall (1981:885-887) considered nesarnack and gillii distinct species, and synonymized truncatus with nesarnack. Opinion 1413 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1986) conserved truncatus Montagu, 1821 and suppressed nesarnack Lacépède, 1804. Rice (1998:106) provisionally recognized T. t. truncatus (Bottlenose Dolphin), T. t. ponticus (Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin) and T. t. gillii (Cowfish). The relationship of Tursiops gephyreus (South American Bottlenose Dolphin), to either T. truncatus or T. aduncus remains uncertain.

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.