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Tursiops

Tursiops

See also: tursiops

Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Tursiops m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Delphinidae – the bottlenose dolphins.

Hyponyms

tursiops

tursiops

See also: Tursiops

English

Noun

tursiops

  1. plural of tursiop
    • 2016 January 21, “A Permanent Automated Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Bottlenose Dolphin Conservation in the Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145362:
      For the scope of the ARION project, however, the two detection units operate individually because it is necessary only to locate the tursiops within one of the five sectors of the project area.