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Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus truncatus

Classification

Order
Cetacea

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
United Kingdom · 11Peru · 1