Tursiops aduncus, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin : fisheries, bait

Tursiops aduncus   (Ehrenberg, 1833)

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 75906); depth range 0 - 2000 m, usually 1 - 50 m.  Tropical; 90°N - 90°S, 15°E - 180°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 208 - 220 cm Max length : 270 cm BL male/unsexed; (Ref. 104989); max. published weight: 230.0 kg (Ref. 104988)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

They prefer living on seagrass meadows and rocky substrata (Ref. 114971). Feeds on bony fishes and cephalopods (Ref. 84677). Attacked and preyed upon by tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier (Ref. 104930). This species was reported to display complex prey handling of the benthic-dwelling Maori octopus (Macroctopus maorum), processing its prey by shaking and tossing (Ref. 122728). The same octopus was reported to have asphyxiated an adult male of this species, with the octopus arms protruding from the mouth and the rest of the body blocking the pharynx, larynx and esophagus (Ref. 122729). Occurs in pods of various numbers (Ref. 129713).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Rice, D.W. 1998 Marine Mammals of the World Systematics and Distribution. Special Publication number 4: The Society for Marine Mammalogy. 231p. (Ref. 1522)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Near Threatened (NT) (A4cd); Date assessed: 18 July 2019

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Appendix II: International trade monitored

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix II: Migratory species conserved through agreements

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; bait: usually
FAO - Fisheries: landings | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: ; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 21.9 - 29, mean 27.6 (based on 2288 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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