2.95 m
Typical representative
Uniformly scaled by straight upper-jaw-tip-to-tail-fluke-notch standard length; the pose is not stretched to every descriptive dimension.
Adult Common Bottlenose Dolphin
Adult Common Bottlenose Dolphin represents one Tursiops truncatus of unspecified sex and ecotype in a strict left-facing orthographic side profile and calm horizontal swim. Uniform scale comes from a published generic adult standard length of 2.95 m, measured from the upper-jaw tip to the tail-fluke notch. The streamlined gray body, short thick rostrum, curved dorsal fin, pectoral flippers and naturally edge-on flukes remain anatomically proportioned.
Dimensions
- Height
- 78 cm
- Length
- 2.95 m
- Weight
- 200 kg
Quick facts
- Representative adult length
- 2.95 m
- Generic adult reference mass
- 200 kg
- NOAA length range
- 6–13 ft (about 1.83–3.96 m)
- Scientific name
- Tursiops truncatus
- Coloration
- dark gray above, pale below
Adult Common Bottlenose Dolphin · Size infographic
Related objects
Sources and measurement55 References
Dimensions were cross-checked against independent sources before publication.
Measurement basis
The 2.95 m straight upper-jaw-tip-to-fluke-notch standard length alone controls uniform scale. The displayed vertical envelope belongs only to this reviewed swimming pose.
References
- 01Common Bottlenose DolphinNOAA Fisheries
- 02Life Expectancy in Marine Mammals Is Unrelated to Telomere Length but Is Associated With Body SizeFrontiers in Genetics
- 03Tursiops truncatus (bottlenosed dolphin)Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan
- 04Common bottlenose dolphinNorth Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
- 05NWFSC Protected Species Handling ProceduresNOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center