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
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
