Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Tursiops

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tursiops*	Gervais, 1855	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: stompneusdolfyn; stumpneusdolfyn

Arabic: delfin kabir

Basque: izurde handia

Bulgarian: afаlа; Афала sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: dofí mular; molar

Croatian: dobri dupin

Danish: øresvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: tuimelaar sources: Camphuysen, Kees

English: black porpoise; bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose porpoise; bottlenosed dolphin; bottle-nosed dolphin; common bottlenose dolphin sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: dauphin à gros nez; dauphin nesarnak; grand dauphin; grand souffleur; gros dauphin gris; nesarnark; oudre; souffleur; tursion; tursiops; tursiops nesarnak sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: grosser Tümmler; Großtümmler; hochcöpliger Tümmler; Tümmler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: rinodélfino; Ρινοδέλφινο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: dolphinan yam hatichon; דולפינן ים-התיכון sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: lumba-lumba hidung botol

Italian: delfino maggiore; delfino soffiatore; tursio; tursione; tursiope; tursiope troncato sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: bando iruka; handa iruka; ハンドウイルカ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Kalaallisut: nezarnak

Korean: keun-dolgorae

Latvian: lielaa-iuras-tsuuka

Lithuanian: afalina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasy: lambondriaka aman'oron-tavoahangy

Malayalam: chankan eedi

Maltese: delfin geddumu qasir

Norwegian: tandthöije; tumler

Norwegian Bokmål: tumler sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: tumlar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: butlonos zwyczajny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: boto-da-tainha; délfin-mular; golfinho-flíper; golfinho-nariz-de-garrafa; roaz; roaz-corvineiro; toninha

Romanian: tursiops

Russian: afalina; afalina (in Black Sea); bolshoi delfin; chernyi delfin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: velika pliskovka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: bufeo; delfin de las islas; delfín mular; delfin nariz de botella; delfin pico de botella; guamachin; mular; pez mular; tursio; tursion

Swedish: oresvin; öresvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Tamil: odan; ongil (dolphins in general); ongole

Telugu: gadamu

Turkish: afale; afalina

Ukrainian: Афаліна; Афаліна чорноморська sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: dolffin trwyn potel; dolffin trwynbwl

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137111