Tursiops Gervais 1855

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 734

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329753
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scientific name	Tursiops Gervais 1855
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Tursiops Gervais 1855 View in CoL

Tursiops Gervais 1855 View in CoL , Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 2: 323.

Type Species: Delphinus truncatus Montagu 1821

Synonyms: Gadamu Gray 1868 ; Tursio Gray 1843 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 3 subspecies:

Species Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg 1833)

Species Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821)

Subspecies Tursiops truncatus subsp. truncatus Montagu 1821

Subspecies Tursiops truncatus subsp. gillii Dall 1873

Subspecies Tursiops truncatus subsp. ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov 1940

Discussion: Two species are provisionally recognized in this highly polymorphic genus.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
SubOrder	Odontoceti
Family	Delphinidae

Tursiops Gervais 1855

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005

2005

Tursiops

Gervais 1855: 323

1855

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