MammalBase - Diet set for Tursiops truncatus

Table 1. List of accepted Taxa that Tursiops truncatus is matched against.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Tursiops truncatus	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

Diet set for Tursiops truncatus
Location:	Tuscany area (northwestern Mediterranean Sea), Italy
Time period:	-: () months
Gender:
Sample size:	53
Method:	Stomach contents: %IRI = percentage of the index of relative importance
Study time:	2005 and 2021
Cited reference:	Original study
Reference:	Neri, A., Sartor, P., Voliani, A., Mancusi, C. and Marsili, L., 2022. Diet of Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Diversity, 15(1), p.21.

Table 2. Food items listed for Tursiops truncatus
List order	Ratio	TSN Complete name	Part
1	26.920	Merluccius merluccius	WHOLE
2	25.090	Conger conger	WHOLE
3	7.190	Illex coindetii	WHOLE
4	5.910	Diplodus annularis	WHOLE
5	5.430	Ophidion barbatum	WHOLE
6	5.090	Pagellus erythrinus	WHOLE
7	4.890	Octopus vulgaris	WHOLE
8	3.310	Eledone cirrhosa	WHOLE
9	2.310	Loligo vulgaris	WHOLE
10	2.140	Mugilidae	WHOLE
11	1.920	Gobius niger	WHOLE
12	1.640	Trachurus mediterraneus	WHOLE
13	1.170	Mullus	WHOLE
14	1.010	Trisopterus	WHOLE
15	0.970	Rissoa	WHOLE
16	0.900	Eledone moschata	WHOLE
17	0.660	Engraulis encrasicolus	WHOLE
18	0.500	Sardina pilchardus	WHOLE
19	0.480	Boops lineatus	WHOLE
20	0.380	Spicara flexuosa	WHOLE
21	0.380	Lesueurigobius	WHOLE
22	0.210	Trachurus	WHOLE
23	0.200	Sphyraena sphyraena	WHOLE
24	0.180	Lithognathus mormyrus	WHOLE
25	0.170	Spicara smaris	WHOLE
26	0.120	Umbrina cirrosa	WHOLE
27	0.120	Sparus aurata	WHOLE
28	0.120	Alloteuthis	WHOLE
29	0.100	Serranus	WHOLE
30	0.060	Gnathophis mystax	WHOLE
31	0.060	Chelidonichthys cuculus	WHOLE
32	0.050	Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini	WHOLE
33	0.040	Citharus linguatula	WHOLE
34	0.040	Gobius	WHOLE
35	0.030	Diplodus vulgaris	WHOLE
36	0.020	Arnoglossus	WHOLE
37	0.020	Phycis	WHOLE
38	0.020	Chelidonichthys lucernus	WHOLE
39	0.010	Callionymus	WHOLE
40	0.010	Sardinella aurita	WHOLE
41	0.010	Dicentrarchus labrax	WHOLE
42	0.010	Solea solea	WHOLE
43	0.010	Solea	WHOLE
44	0.010	Pagellus acarne	WHOLE
45	0.010	Histioteuthis reversa	WHOLE
46	0.010	Onychoteuthis banksii	WHOLE
47	0.010	Heteroteuthis dispar	WHOLE
48	0.010	Bothus podas	WHOLE
49	0.010	Callionymus risso	WHOLE
50	0.010	Cepola macrophthalma	WHOLE
51	0.010	Micromesistius poutassou	WHOLE
52	0.010	Pomadasys incisus	WHOLE
53	0.010	Mullus barbatus	WHOLE
54	0.010	Serranus cabrilla	WHOLE
55	0.010	Dentex dentex	WHOLE
56	0.010	Spondyliosoma cantharus	WHOLE
57	0.010	Synodus saurus	WHOLE
58	0.010	Argonauta argo	WHOLE
59	0.010	Abralia veranyi	WHOLE
60	0.010	Loligo	WHOLE