common bottlenose dolphin vs Creeping Prickly-Pear

Tursiops truncatus compared with Opuntia humifusa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	common bottlenose dolphin	Creeping Prickly-Pear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Cetacea (Whales & Dolphins)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Delphinidae (Oceanic Dolphins)	Cactaceae
Genus	Tursiops (Bottlenose Dolphins)	Opuntia
Species	Tursiops truncatus	Opuntia humifusa

Conservation Status

common bottlenose dolphin

LC — Least Concern

Population: ~600.0K

Trend: Stable →

Creeping Prickly-Pear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	common bottlenose dolphin	Creeping Prickly-Pear
Diet	Carnivore	—
Average Lifespan	45 years	—
Average Length	3.0 m	—
Average Weight	300.0 kg	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

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).

Creeping Prickly-Pear

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, flooded grasslands and savannas, and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa), Asia (Georgia), Europe (9 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (Australia).

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.