Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) — also called Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin. Occurrence records of the Bottlenose Dolphin are shared on GBIF from around 12 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Garden Route National Park (14 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernDelphinidae

12reserves with records

49records around them

3provinces

LCIUCN category

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) — Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Garden Route National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	14
Wilderness National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	7
Robberg Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	7
Boulders Penguin ColonyGame reserve	WC Western Cape	5
Stony Point Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2
Table Mountain National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	2
Jukani Predator ParkNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2
Stony Point Penguin ColonyNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2
Betty's Bay Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	2
T.C. Robertson Nature ReserveNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	2
Noorsekloof Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	2
Featherbed Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2

By province

Western Cape: 10 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 1 reserve
Eastern Cape: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Family: Delphinidae
Scientific name: Tursiops truncatus
GBIF taxon: 2440447
Wikidata: Q174199

More of the Delphinidae family

Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin Haviside's Dolphin Indian Ocean humpback dolphin Short-beaked Common Dolphin Spinner Dolphin

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.