Black Sea bottlenose dolphin
| Black Sea bottlenose dolphin Temporal range: Holocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Delphinidae |
| Genus: | Tursiops |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | T. t. ponticus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940) | |
The Black Sea bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ponticus) is a subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin. Recent findings suggest that they differ from the common bottlenose dolphin based on slight differences in cranial activity and genetic composition. This species occupies the Black Sea, and is less frequently studied than the more common Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
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