Tursiops truncatus
Description
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) —Common Bottlenose Dolphin
Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 p.75; Type locality- England, UK.
Tursiops gillii Dall, 1873 p.13; Type locality- Monterey, California, US.
Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 191b 1 p. 233; Type locality- Pacific (12°N, 120°W)
T. truncates: Kuroda, 1938 p.17; Kim et al., 2000 p.100; Kim, 2004 p.245.
Range: Tursiops truncatus inhabits waters near the Korean Peninsula and has no overlap with the range of T. aduncus in the waters off Jeju Island (Kim 2004; Fig. 102).
Remarks: The Genus Tursiops has a controversial taxonomy. Several previously described species of bottlenose dolphins had wide distributions and variations in morphological characteristics. Tursiops truncates, a widespread species, was comprised of both near shore and offshore forms (Hoelzel 1998; Rice 1998). It belongs to a complex of several species with substantial genetic differences, even among neighboring populations, such as offshore and coastal forms in the North Atlantic Ocean (Hammond et al. 2012).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Tursiops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Montagu
- Species
- truncatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Montagu, G. (1821) Description of a sepcies of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, 3, 75 - 82.
- Dall, W. H. (1873) description of three new species of Cetacea, from the coast of Califonia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, 5, 12 - 14.
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Hoelzel, A. R. (1998) Genetic structure of cetacean populations in sympatry, parapatry, and mixed assembles: implications for conservation policy. Journal of Heredity, 89, 451 - 458. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jhered / 89.5.451
- Rice, D. W. (1998) Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Lawrence, Kansas, 231 pp.
- Hammond, P. S., Bearzi, G., Bjorge, A., Forney, K. A., Karkzmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W. F., Scott, M. D., Wang, J. Y., Wells, R. S. & Wilson, B. (2012) Lagenorhynchus obliquidens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012. Avaialbe from: http: // www. iucnredlist. org / (accessed 10 November 2015)