Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops aduncus
Category: Whales & Dolphins
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetartiodactyla
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Tursiops
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 11 countries and 3 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 437 records
- South Australia, Australia - 393 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 452 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 67 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Dahab, Egypt - 54 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 47 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 142 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 142 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 32 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 66 records
- Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - 133 records
- Eilat, Israel - 4 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 6 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 6 records