Tursiops is a genus of dolphins, family Delphinidae, known as the bottlenose dolphins, comprising three species currently recognized by the Society for Marine Mammalogy: the common bottlenose dolphin, the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin, found in warm and temperate seas worldwide except the Arctic and Antarctic. Members have an elongated rostrum with 18 to 28 conical teeth per side of each jaw, average around 300 kilograms and just over 4 meters in length, and carry an encephalization quotient of about 5.26, higher than that of chimpanzees.
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Taxonomic Rank Member Count Band Era First Appeared Classification
Living or Extinct Connections
Parent Taxon Of
Source Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Wikidata)
Sources
1. Bottlenose dolphin (Wikipedia)
2. Wikipedia: Bottlenose dolphin
Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)View the Source 3. Catalogue of Life (ChecklistBank): Taxon metrics for Tursiops
Catalogue of Life (ChecklistBank)Taxon metrics, speciesExtantCountQuote, Taxon metrics, speciesExtantCount
"speciesExtantCount": 3
4. Paleobiology Database: Taxon record for Tursiops
Paleobiology DatabaseTaxon record, first appearance (firstapp_max_ma, early_interval)Quote, Taxon record, first appearance (firstapp_max_ma, early_interval)
"taxon_name": "Tursiops" ... "firstapp_max_ma": 7.246 ... "early_interval": "Messinian"
Wikidata: Tursiops
Wikidata Q149069, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Wikidata)
WikidataParent Taxon Of: Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q149069 (Tursiops)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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