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Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin; Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin; Red Sea bottlenose dolphin)

Synonyms: Clymenia gudamu; Delphinus aduncus; Sotalia gadumu; Tursiops truncatus aduncus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) is a species of bottlenose dolphin. This dolphin grows to 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) long, and weighs up to 230 kilograms (510 lb). 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.
View Wikipedia Record: Tursiops aduncus

Infraspecies

Tursiops aduncus aduncus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 7.48
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  311.184 lbs (141.15 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  42.66 lbs (19.35 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Marine [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  9 years
Male Maturity [1]  10 years 1 month
Gestation [1]  1 year
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  53 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  10.693 feet (326 cm)

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Halocercus lagenorhynchi[5]
Pharurus alatus[5]
Stenurus ovatus[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Fish diets and food webs in the Swan–Canning estuary, River Science July 2009, Department of Water, Government of Western Australia
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Species 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