Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin was only recognized as its own species in 2021, split out from the common bottlenose dolphin as a distinct coastal, inshore-dwelling population found along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Florida’s 885 records concentrate on the Space Coast, where Brevard County holds 308 and Canaveral National Seashore leads the named sites with 63, and every one of them is an iNaturalist sighting, 618 of which also appear in GBIF.
Records peak in March, with December close behind, both roughly four times the June low, a pattern that may reflect genuine seasonal movement into sheltered coastal water during the cooler months. NatureServe hasn’t assigned Florida a numeric rank for the species (SNR), and its recent taxonomic split means most historical Florida dolphin records were never sorted between this species and the more offshore common bottlenose.
