#0346 · 🦊 mammals

Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops erebennus

🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © hbook91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kathy Richardson · CC BY 4.0
3. © David Yeager · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Peg Frizzell · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Pablo Tapia Ossa · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
7. Dare County, NC, USA:© ywcai · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Martin County, FL, USA:© Dean Hester · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. 127 Edgewater Rd, Satsuma, FL, US:© mantatoo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. New Jersey, US:© jmarcinik · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops erebennus ) is a species of bottlenose dolphin that inhabits coastal waters in the eastern United States. This species was previously considered a nearshore variant of the common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,447iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,447 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1865 (161 years ago).