Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) Grand dauphin de l'Océan Indien, Tursiops aduncus, dans la Port River, vers Adélaïde (Australie méridionale).
Description
Français : Grand dauphin de l'Océan Indien, Tursiops aduncus, dans la Port River, vers Adélaïde (Australie méridionale).
Date 2003
Author Aude Steiner
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tursiops_aduncus,_Port_River,_Adelaide,_Australia_-_2003.jpg
The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) is a species of bottlenose dolphin. This dolphin grows to 2.6 metres long, and weighs up to 230 kilograms. It lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern coast of Africa. Its back is dark grey and its belly is lighter grey or nearly white with grey spots. Until 1998, all bottlenose dolphins were considered members of the single species T. truncatus. In that year, the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was recognized as a separate species. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins may actually be more closely related to the Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis), than it is to the common bottlenose dolphin. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Delphinidae, Genus: Tursiops, Species: Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1833), Synonyms: Delphinus aduncus Ehrenberg, 1833.
