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Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin; Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin; Chinese white dolphin; Pacific humpback dolphin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin (Sousa chinensis) is a species of humpback dolphin that is found in coastal waters ranging from southern Africa in the west to northern Australia and southeast Asia to the east. The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin is regarded as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
View Wikipedia Record: Sousa chinensis

Infraspecies

Sousa chinensis chinensis
Sousa chinensis taiwanensis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Sousa chinensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.37
EDGE Score: 2.93
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Gestation [4]  11 months
Litter Size [4]  1
Maximum Longevity [5]  25 years
Snout to Vent Length [5]  8.2 feet (250 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal, Brackish Water
Weaning [2]  5 months
Adult Weight [2]  617.298 lbs (280.00 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  9 years 9 months
Male Maturity [4]  12 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Netuma thalassina (Sea catfish)1
Orcaella heinsohni (Australian snubfin dolphin)2
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)1
Sousa plumbea (Indian humpback dolphin)1
Terapon jarbua (Tiger-perch)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Halocercus pingi[8]
Syncyamus aequus[4]
Toxoplasma gondii[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Sousa chinensis, Thomas A. Jefferson and Leszek Karczmarski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 655, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Parra, G. J. and Jedensjö, M. (2009) Feeding habits of Australian Snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis). Project Report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townvsille and Reef & Rainforest Research Centre LImitred, Cairns (22pp.).
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0