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: %N, percentage in number
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	21.060	Merluccius merluccius	WHOLE
2	13.080	Conger conger	WHOLE
3	7.330	Ophidion barbatum	WHOLE
4	5.450	Diplodus annularis	WHOLE
5	4.950	Illex coindetii	WHOLE
6	4.220	Pagellus erythrinus	WHOLE
7	3.870	Osteichthyes	WHOLE
8	3.530	Gobius niger	WHOLE
9	3.300	Sardina pilchardus	WHOLE
10	3.030	Eledone cirrhosa	WHOLE
11	2.490	Mullus	WHOLE
12	2.450	Trachurus mediterraneus	WHOLE
13	2.450	Octopus vulgaris	WHOLE
14	2.150	Trisopterus	WHOLE
15	1.840	Loligo vulgaris	WHOLE
16	1.650	Engraulis encrasicolus	WHOLE
17	1.530	Eledone moschata	WHOLE
18	1.300	Trachurus	WHOLE
19	1.230	Gobiidae	WHOLE
20	0.960	Lesueurigobius	WHOLE
21	0.840	Boops lineatus	WHOLE
22	0.810	Mugilidae	WHOLE
23	0.810	Triglidae	WHOLE
24	0.770	Spicara flexuosa	WHOLE
25	0.610	Spicara smaris	WHOLE
26	0.610	Lithognathus mormyrus	WHOLE
27	0.580	Rissoa	WHOLE
28	0.460	Phycis	WHOLE
29	0.460	Umbrina cirrosa	WHOLE
30	0.460	Serranus	WHOLE
31	0.460	Alloteuthis	WHOLE
32	0.420	Clupeidae	WHOLE
33	0.420	Ariosoma balearicum	WHOLE
34	0.380	Gnathophis mystax	WHOLE
35	0.350	Sphyraena sphyraena	WHOLE
36	0.310	Gobius	WHOLE
37	0.310	Sparus aurata	WHOLE
38	0.310	Chelidonichthys cuculus	WHOLE
39	0.270	Histioteuthis reversa	WHOLE
40	0.270	Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini	WHOLE
41	0.270	Sepiolidae	WHOLE
42	0.230	Citharus linguatula	WHOLE
43	0.190	Diplodus vulgaris	WHOLE
44	0.150	Arnoglossus	WHOLE
45	0.150	Onychoteuthis banksii	WHOLE
46	0.120	Callionymus	WHOLE
47	0.120	Sardinella aurita	WHOLE
48	0.080	Chelidonichthys lucernus	WHOLE
49	0.080	Loligo	WHOLE
50	0.080	Heteroteuthis dispar	WHOLE
51	0.080	Cephalopoda	WHOLE
52	0.040	Bothus podas	WHOLE
53	0.040	Callionymus risso	WHOLE
54	0.040	Cepola macrophthalma	WHOLE
55	0.040	Micromesistius poutassou	WHOLE
56	0.040	Pomadasys incisus	WHOLE
57	0.040	Dicentrarchus labrax	WHOLE
58	0.040	Mullus barbatus	WHOLE
59	0.040	Serranus cabrilla	WHOLE
60	0.040	Solea solea	WHOLE
61	0.040	Solea	WHOLE
62	0.040	Soleidae	WHOLE
63	0.040	Dentex dentex	WHOLE
64	0.040	Pagellus acarne	WHOLE
65	0.040	Spondyliosoma cantharus	WHOLE
66	0.040	Synodus saurus	WHOLE
67	0.040	Argonauta argo	WHOLE
68	0.040	Abralia veranyi	WHOLE
69	0.040	Octopodidae	WHOLE