Tursiops

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