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).