Common bottlenose dolphin

Common bottlenose dolphin
	Common bottlenose dolphin breaching surfing a boat wake, a frequently seen activity in high traffic areas
	Size compared to an average human
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Delphinidae
Genus:	Tursiops
Species:	T. truncatus
Binomial name
	Tursiops truncatus; (Montagu, 1821)
Subspecies
	T. t. truncatus; T. t. ponticus; T. t. gephyreus; T. t. nuuanu;
	Common bottlenose dolphin range (in blue)
Synonyms
	Delphinus tursio Gunnerus, 1768 ; Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre, 1789 ; Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 ; Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821 ; Phocoena compressicauda Lesson, 1828 ; Delphinus catalania Gray, 1844 ; Tursiops communis Fitzing, 1846 ; Delphinus compressicauda Gray, 1846 ; Delphinus cymodoce Gray, 1846 ; Delphinus eurynome Gray, 1846 ; Delphinus metis Gray, 1846 ; Tursiops eurynome Gray, 1846 ; Delphinus erebennus Cope, 1865 ; Tursio catalania Gray, 1866 ; Tursio cymodoce Gray, 1866 ; Tursio eurynome Gray, 1866 ; Tursio metis Gray, 1866 ; Tursio truncatus Gray, 1866 ; Tursio compressicauda Gray, 1866 ; Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden, 1886 ; Tursiops coerulescens Giglioli, 1889 ; Tursiops compressicauda Trouessart, 1898 ; Tursiops gephyreus Lahille, 1908 ; Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker, 1909 ; Tursiops nuuanu Andrews, 1911 ; Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934 ; Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 ;

The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops. The common bottlenose dolphin is a very familiar dolphin due to the wide exposure it receives in captivity in marine parks and dolphinariums, and in movies and television programs. Spending their entire life in water, common bottlenose dolphins inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, absent only from polar waters. While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole. As considerable genetic variation has been described within this species, even between neighboring populations, many experts think additional species may be recognized.

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