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Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Object Details
- Notes
- A great white shark, 12-15 feet long, attacked Todd Endris, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone. A group of bottlenose dolphins came and kept the shark at bay..
- MSNBC.com 27 IX 2007
- Record Last Modified
- 26 Sep 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Data Source
- NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division
- Collection Date
- 28 Aug 2007
- Other Numbers
- Whale Field Number 1 : No Number
- USNM Number
- STR22614
- Ocean/Sea/Gulf
- North Pacific Ocean
- Sex
- Multiple animals of mixed sex
- Place
- Marine State Park, Monterey County, California, United States, North America, North Pacific Ocean
- Published Name
- Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
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- Vertebrate Zoology
- Mammals
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinidae
- Record ID
- nmnhvz_14879239
- Usage
- CC0
