| Citation | Rice, D.W., 1998 Marine Mammals of the World Systematics and Distribution. Special Publication number 4: The Society for Marine Mammalogy. 231p. | |
| Ref. | 1522 Rice, D.W., 1998 | |
| Page | 106-107 | |
| Named Used as Valid | Tursiops aduncus | |
| Locality | ||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa from Cape Province north to the Red Sea, eastward to Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Hawaii. | |
| Quote | Reported as T. nuuanu in USA-California to Peru; Reported as T. gephyreus in Uruguay and Argentina. The coastal subspecies of Tursiops from the Southwestern Atlantic have none of the cranial or external features typically found in T. aduncus (Refg. 128824) |