Record details

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:   2928
Province:  
Country:   Namibia
Locus:   2113DD
Observer:   Crane G
Date of record:   2007-10-21
Number of photos:   1
Notes:  
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:54
Sp. code:   217170
Species name:   Tursiops truncatus
Common name:   Bottlenose Dolphin -- Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
Family:   Delphinidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Dusky Dolphin
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=-2928
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
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Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Megan Loftie-Eaton
Comment:  
Date:   2012-07-19 10:04:10
Species name:   Lagenorhynchus obscurus -- Dusky Dolphin; Dusky Dolphin
Species code:   216930
Comment number:   2
By:   Meredith Thornton
Comment:   This animal is a bottlenose dolphin - it has a beak, which a dusky doesn't and it is large, does not have the body colouration of a dusky and the dorsal fin is not 2-tone
Date:   2014-09-04 17:13:23
Species name:   Tursiops truncatus -- Bottlenose Dolphin; Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
Species code:   217170

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