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SpeciesCetaceaDelphinidae
Marine mammals

🐬Common bottlenose dolphin

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

O golfinho-roaz, golfinho-nariz-de-garrafa ou roaz-corvineiro (nome científico: Tursiops truncatus) é a mais famosa e conhecida espécie de golfinho no mundo inteiro. Não somente por ser a espécie do famoso golfinho da série de televisão Flipper, mas também em função da sua distribuição ao longo de águas costeiras e oceânicas em todos os mares do planeta, com exceção dos mares polares. Divulgados também por suas apresentações de aquários, são popularmente conhecidos por serem carismáticos e inteligentes. Em 1920, a espécie passou a ser capturada para estudos e espetáculos em cativeiro, e é atualmente considerada a espécie mais comum nos parques temáticos. No Brasil, distribui-se em águas próximas à costa entre o Rio Grande do Sul e Santa Catarina, a partir de onde pode ser encontrada em águas mais afastadas da costa até ao Nordeste. Os maiores golfinhos-nariz-de-garrafa do mundo estão no Brasil, na Lagoa dos Patos, onde podem alcançar 4 metros de comprimento.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 3.7× your weight
Also called
Cowfish, Bottlenose dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottle-nosed Dolphin, bottle-nosed dophin, common bottle-nosed dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

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 mass
230 kgrecord 650 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 200 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
3.63 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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Brain mass
1,551 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
53 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 52 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
18 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
9.2 years
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Gestation
1.0 years
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  • 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
53 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.2 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
230 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCetacea
  5. ›familyDelphinidae
  6. ›genusTursiops
  7. ›speciesTursiops truncatus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
  4. genusTursiops
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderWhippomorpha
  13. infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
  14. familyDelphinidae
  15. genusTursiops
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Closest relative on this site
🐬 Irrawaddy dolphin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.1 million years ago.
What it eats
fish80%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
Tumler (nb), tuimelaar (nl), Großer Tümmler (de), grand dauphin (fr), Tursiops truncatus (es), Tursiops truncatus (it) … and 27 more languages
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Tursiops truncatus 01 croppedA juvenile bottlenose dolphin geograph.org.uk 7545107
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