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: %W, percentage in biomass
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	21.150	Merluccius merluccius	WHOLE
2	10.630	Octopus vulgaris	WHOLE
3	9.480	Conger conger	WHOLE
4	6.830	Eledone cirrhosa	WHOLE
5	6.610	Mugilidae	WHOLE
6	6.370	Illex coindetii	WHOLE
7	5.280	Rissoa	WHOLE
8	5.080	Loligo vulgaris	WHOLE
9	3.760	Diplodus annularis	WHOLE
10	3.690	Lithognathus mormyrus	WHOLE
11	3.230	Pagellus erythrinus	WHOLE
12	2.370	Trachurus mediterraneus	WHOLE
13	2.310	Ophidion barbatum	WHOLE
14	1.490	Eledone moschata	WHOLE
15	1.420	Boops lineatus	WHOLE
16	1.400	Mullus	WHOLE
17	1.250	Sphyraena sphyraena	WHOLE
18	1.140	Sparus aurata	WHOLE
19	0.980	Umbrina cirrosa	WHOLE
20	0.780	Trisopterus	WHOLE
21	0.520	Sardina pilchardus	WHOLE
22	0.500	Spicara flexuosa	WHOLE
23	0.460	Gobius niger	WHOLE
24	0.390	Spicara smaris	WHOLE
25	0.300	Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini	WHOLE
26	0.280	Trachurus	WHOLE
27	0.230	Engraulis encrasicolus	WHOLE
28	0.220	Diplodus vulgaris	WHOLE
29	0.190	Chelidonichthys cuculus	WHOLE
30	0.190	Chelidonichthys lucernus	WHOLE
31	0.150	Dicentrarchus labrax	WHOLE
32	0.140	Serranus	WHOLE
33	0.120	Onychoteuthis banksii	WHOLE
34	0.100	Citharus linguatula	WHOLE
35	0.100	Solea solea	WHOLE
36	0.100	Pagellus acarne	WHOLE
37	0.090	Solea	WHOLE
38	0.080	Alloteuthis	WHOLE
39	0.070	Mullus barbatus	WHOLE
40	0.070	Histioteuthis reversa	WHOLE
41	0.050	Gnathophis mystax	WHOLE
42	0.050	Serranus cabrilla	WHOLE
43	0.040	Arnoglossus	WHOLE
44	0.040	Sardinella aurita	WHOLE
45	0.040	Pomadasys incisus	WHOLE
46	0.040	Dentex dentex	WHOLE
47	0.040	Synodus saurus	WHOLE
48	0.030	Gobius	WHOLE
49	0.030	Spondyliosoma cantharus	WHOLE
50	0.020	Micromesistius poutassou	WHOLE
51	0.020	Phycis	WHOLE
52	0.010	Bothus podas	WHOLE
53	0.010	Callionymus	WHOLE
54	0.010	Lesueurigobius	WHOLE
55	0.010	Abralia veranyi	WHOLE
56	0.010	Loligo	WHOLE
57	0.010	Callionymus risso	WHOLE
58	0.010	Cepola macrophthalma	WHOLE
59	0.010	Argonauta argo	WHOLE
60	0.010	Heteroteuthis dispar	WHOLE