Tursiops
See also: tursiops
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Latin tursiō (“a kind of dolphin”) (see also Tursio, syn. of Physeter) + -ops.
Proper noun
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- A taxonomic genus within the family Delphinidae – bottlenose dolphins.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Cetacea - order; Neoceti - clade; Odontoceti - suborder; Delphinidae - family
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin, Atlantic bottlenose dolphin) - type species; Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin), Tursiops australis - other extant species
References
edit- Tursiops on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tursiops on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Tursiops on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Tursiops in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.