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Common Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Description:

Grey with pink belly, long rostrum, swim almost 25 mph

Habitat:

Florida ocean/Dolphin Research Center-Grassy Key,FL

1 Species ID Suggestions

1Sarah2
1Sarah2 12 years ago
Bottle-nosed dolphin
Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin


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3 Comments

Megan Gilbert
Megan Gilbert 10 years ago

this site is good see if you can find the dolphin you saw here
http://www.whales.org.au/discover/dolphi...

Megan Gilbert
Megan Gilbert 10 years ago

i doubt that that's a bottlenose dolphin, if you look carefully at the dorsal fin you'll see it's much too curved

http://www.google.co.za/imgres?imgurl=ht...

1Sarah2
1Sarah2 12 years ago

The website has a really good picture of the belly of the dolphin. Verify this is as you saw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Bott...

huotk7
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huotk7

Florida, USA

Spotted on Jul 3, 2011
Submitted on Jul 4, 2011

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