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Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenosed Dolphin; Bottlenose Dolphin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tursiops truncatus, commonly known as the common bottlenose dolphin or the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (and in older literature simply as the bottlenose dolphin, a term now applied to the genus), is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae.
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Infraspecies

Tursiops truncatus gephyreus
Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin)
Tursiops truncatus truncatus (Bottlenose Dolphin)
Tursiops tursio tursio

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.48
EDGE Score: 2.14
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  1 year
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  52 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  11.906 feet (363 cm)
Speed [5]  21.738 MPH (9.718 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Coastal, Brackish Water
Weaning [2]  1 year 6 months
Adult Weight [2]  440.927 lbs (200.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  42.66 lbs (19.35 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  7 years 9 months
Male Maturity [2]  10 years 1 month

Protected Areas

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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Carcharodon carcharias (Maneater shark)[6]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Wikipedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Habitat Partitioning by Three Species of Dolphins in Santa Monica Bay, California, Maddalena Bearzi, Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative, 07-08-2003
♦ 8CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 9Towards the trophic structure of the Bouvet Island marine ecosystem, U. Jacob, T. Brey, I. Fetzer, S. Kaehler, K. Mintenbeck, K. Dunton, K. Beyer, U. Struck , E.A. Pakhomov and W.E. Arntz, Polar Biology, 29 (2). pp. 106-113 (2006)
♦ 10PREY OCCURRENCE IN THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF FOUR SMALL CETACEAN SPECIES IN PERU, IGNACIO GARCÍA-GODOS, KOEN VAN WAEREBEEK, JULIO C. REYES, JOANNA ALFARO-SHIGUETO AND MILENA ARIAS-SCHREIBER, LAJAM 6(2): 171-183, December 2007
♦ 11Insights on small cetacean feeding habits in southeastern Brazil, Marcos César de Oliveira Santos, Sergio Rosso, Roberta Aguiar dos Santos, Silvia Helena Bulizani Lucato, and Manuela Bassio, Aquatic Mammals 2002, 28.1, 38-45
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 13Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0