Species profile—Tursiops truncatus (offshore bottlenose dolphin)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Delphinidae (dolphins) → Tursiops truncatus (offshore bottlenose dolphin)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Delphinidae (dolphins)
- Scientific name
- Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
- Common name
- offshore bottlenose dolphin
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1024
- Synonym(s)
- Tursiops maugeanus
Tursiops nuuanu
Tursiops gilli
Tursiops gephyreus - Alternate name(s)
- bottlenose dolphin
bottlenosed dolphin
common bottlenose dolphin
bottle-nosed dolphin - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1024
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
