Order Cetacea Author James G. Mead Author Robert L. Brownell, Jr. text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 349 364 book chapter 193271 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 b3335890-cc2a-4092-9ace-81c1cd7b5cad 1-56098-217-9 7352970 Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) . Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc., 3:75 , pl. 3. TYPE LOCALITY: UK , England , Devonshire, "in Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up the River Dart" . DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters, including the Black Sea. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: aduncus , gephyreus , gillii , nesarnack , nuuanu . COMMENTS: See Leatherwood and Reeves (1990). Ross and Cockroft (1990:124) considered aduncus to be synonymous with truncatus . Hall (1981:885-887) considered nesarnack and gillii distinct species, and synonymized truncatus with nesarnack . Opinion 1413 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1986) conserved truncatus Montagu, 1821 and suppressed nesarnack Lacépède, 1804 .