Tursiops truncatus

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Tursiops; Tursiops truncatus; Pacific; Montagu; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4571447; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571447

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) —Common Bottlenose Dolphin Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 p.75; Type locality- England, UK. Tursiops gillii Dall, 1873 p.13; Type locality- Monterey, California, US. Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 191b 1 p. 233; Type locality- Pacific (12°N, 120°W) T. truncates: Kuroda, 1938 p.17; Kim et al., 2000 p.100; Kim, 2004 p.245. Range: Tursiops truncatus inhabits waters near the Korean Peninsula and has no overlap with the range of T. aduncus in the waters off Jeju Island (Kim 2004; Fig. 102). Remarks: The Genus Tursiops has a controversial taxonomy. Several previously described species of bottlenose dolphins had wide distributions and variations in morphological characteristics. Tursiops truncates, a widespread species, was comprised of both near shore and offshore forms (Hoelzel 1998; Rice 1998). It belongs to a complex of several species with substantial genetic differences, even among neighboring populations, such as offshore and coastal forms in the North Atlantic Ocean (Hammond et al. 2012). Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 150, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198