Coast Purple Tip vs common bottlenose dolphin

Colotis erone compared with Tursiops truncatus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Coast Purple Tip	common bottlenose dolphin
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (artrópode)	Chordata (cordados)
Class	Insecta (inseto)	Mammalia (mamíferos)
Order	Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)	Cetacea (Whales & Dolphins)
Family	Pieridae	Delphinidae (Oceanic Dolphins)
Genus	Colotis	Tursiops (Bottlenose Dolphins)
Species	Colotis erone	Tursiops truncatus

Evolutionary Relationship

Coast Purple Tip and common bottlenose dolphin share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Coast Purple Tip

LC — Least Concern

common bottlenose dolphin

LC — Least Concern

Population: ~600.0K

Trend: Stable →

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Coast Purple Tip	common bottlenose dolphin
Diet	—	Carnivore
Average Lifespan	—	45 years
Average Length	—	3.0 m
Average Weight	—	300.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Coast Purple Tip

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

common bottlenose dolphin

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, among 12 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (6 countries), and South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

Coast Purple Tip

Coast purple-tip (Colotis erone) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, subfamily Colotinae, native to coastal and wooded savanna habitats of sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in eastern and southern Africa from Kenya and Tanzania south to Mozambique and South Africa. Like other Colotis species, males have striking wing-tip markings—in this case a vivid purple or lilac patch on the forewing apex—while females are more cryptically patterned. Larvae feed on plants in the family Salvadoraceae or Capparaceae, typical host families for the genus. Adults are fast-flying and typically found along woodland margins, coastal thickets, and scrub habitats near the coast. The genus Colotis is distributed across Africa and Asia, with many species restricted to specific host plants and habitat types. Coast purple-tip is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, with populations distributed across suitable coastal and woodland habitat in eastern and southern Africa. Like many invertebrates, it is sensitive to habitat quality and the availability of its larval food plants.

common bottlenose dolphin

A espécie de golfinho mais estudada e reconhecida, os roazes habitam oceanos quentes e temperados de todo o mundo, desde águas costeiras rasas até ao mar aberto. Altamente inteligentes com grandes cérebros em relação ao tamanho corporal, demonstram auto-reconhecimento, comunicação complexa e aprendizagem social. Vivem em sociedades fluidas de fissão-fusão e cooperam para arrebanhar peixes. Uma espécie indicadora chave da saúde dos ecossistemas marinhos.