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Common Bottle-Nosed Dolphin (Offshore Bottlenosed Dolphin) - Tursiops truncatus - Tuimelaar
Worldwide in temperate and tropical waters.
The following 3 subspecies are being recognized:
Tursiops truncatus truncatus - Atlantic (and Indian?) Ocean;
Tursiops truncatus gillii - Pacific Ocean;
Tursiops truncatus ponticus - Black Sea, Southwest-European Russia.
Of this species there are also Nature Photo's available.