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Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Classification

The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Molecular studies show the genus contains three species: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 11,391United Kingdom · 11,288Spain · 2,205Italy · 466Germany · 169Netherlands · 98Brazil · 93Peru · 76Belgium · 17