Tursiops Gilli (Noun)
Meaning
A bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Tursiops gilli is found in the Pacific Ocean and is a subspecies of bottlenose dolphin recognized by taxonomists.
- Scientists discovered that the Pacific Ocean's bottlenose dolphin is more specifically a Tursiops gilli.
- To determine whether the Pacific bottlenose dolphins were Tursiops gilli researchers conducted further examination of the skull's anatomy.
- Tursiops gilli bottlenose dolphins generally prefer the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean.
- The taxonomic subspecies Tursiops gilli refers specifically to the bottlenose dolphins in the Pacific Ocean but this term is not universally accepted among researchers.