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Tursiops truncatus


Bottlenose Dolphin

By:Emily Lenzner




~The Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are small cetaceans that have a long, beaklike snout, a sickle-shaped dorsal fin, and sharp teeth.

~They are Odontoceti.


~They have 1 blowhole.





~Bottlenose dolphins are hunters that fish mostly at the surface of the water, eating mostly fish and squid .

~They have many pairs of sharp, pointed teeth in both the upper and lower jaws.

~Dolphins can dive down to more than 1,000 feet and can jump up to 20 feet out of the water.
~Bottlenose dolphins live near the coast from northern Cape Hatteras to southern Florida. Another population lives near New Jersey.

~Dolphins can live for 25 years.

~Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Cetacea

Family: Delphinidae

Genus: Tursiops

Species: truncatus


~ Other cetaceans are:BELUGA WHALE,BLUE WHALE,BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN,BOWHEAD WHALE,GRAY WHALE, HUMPBACK WHALE,KILLER WHALE,MINKE WHALE,NARWHAL, and ORCA


Characteristics:
Have hair
Give birth to live young
Nurse their young
Four chambered heart
Warm-blooded





Curator: Beth Jewell, beth.jewell@fcps.edu
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