Common Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus (species), “Bottlenose Dolphin”, “Bottle-Nosed Dophin”, “Common Bottle-Nosed Dolphin”, “Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin”, “Bottle-Nosed Dolphin”, “Cowfish”

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The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is the most well-known species of the family Delphinidae. The common bottlenose dolphin is the most familiar dolphin species due to the wide exposure it receives in captivity in marine parks and dolphinaria, and in movies and television programs. It is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. It inhabits temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and is absent only from polar waters. Until recently, all bottlenose dolphins were considered as a single species, but now the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and Burrunan dolphin have been split from the common bottlenose dolphin. While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole. These…