🐬Common bottlenose dolphin
Der Große Tümmler (Tursiops truncatus), in Abgrenzung zu anderen Arten der Gattung Tursiops neuerdings auch Gewöhnlicher Großer Tümmler, ist eine in allen Ozeanen verbreitete Art der Delfine. Es ist diese Art, die hauptsächlich in Delfinarien gehalten wird und durch die Serie Flipper bekannt wurde. Dadurch ist der Große Tümmler der bekannteste aller Delfine geworden. Obwohl in europäischen Gewässern vorwiegend der Gemeine Delfin vorkommt und es sich beim Schwertwal ebenfalls um einen allgemein bekannten Vertreter der Delfine handelt, prägt auch in Europa der Tümmler das Bild, das sich Menschen von dieser Familie machen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 230 kg
- Body length
- 3.63 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 53 years
Everything we know about the Common bottlenose dolphin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass230 kgrecord 650 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 200 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length3.63 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass1,551 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan53 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 52 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length18 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity9.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation1.0 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range53 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.2 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l230 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common bottlenose dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyDelphinidae
- ›genusTursiops
- ›speciesTursiops truncatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusTursiops
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyDelphinidae
- genusTursiops
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