Species Detail - Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Coastal and Marine Species Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map

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Tursiops truncatus
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
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tutru
(Montagu, 1821)
marine mammal
Species
4
3
3
22/10/2016
24/02/2017
1 January (recorded in 1900)
31 December (recorded in 2010)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Coastal and Marine Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/197/Species/134666>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)