PORPOISES, DOLPHINS 



Genus Tursiops 



"Color gray or greenish, lighter below, sometimes with 

 spots." (True) 



Bottlenosed Dolphin. — Tursiops truncatus (Montague). 



Total length about 114 inches. Found on Atlantic coast 

 from Maine to Florida; in Gulf of Mexico to Texas. 



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Fig. 135. Bottlenosed Dolphin 



Pacific Bottlenosed Dolphin; Cowfish. — Tursiops gillii Dall. 



Found in the North Pacific Ocean: Monterey, California and 



Lower California. 

 Andrews Bottlenosed Dolphin. — Tursiops nuuanu Andrews. 



Recorded from the Pacific Ocean from Santa Catalina 



Island and southward. 



Fig. 136. Pacific Bottlenosed Dolphin 



Genus Lissodelphis 



Color everywhere black except for white on extremity of 

 lower jaw and a large area between pectoral fins which ex- 

 tends as a line to flukes. 



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