Sousa chinensis   (Osbeck, 1765)

Pacific humpback dolphin
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Sousa chinensis

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

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae

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

Pelagic-oceanic; amphidromous (Ref. 75906); brackish; depth range 0 - 500 m, usually 1 - 100 m.  Tropical; 90°N - 90°S, 18°E - 155°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific. [eastern Taiwan Strait population: IUCN 2017 (Ref. 115185): CR, C2a(i,ii); D.]

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 235.0, range 200 - 250 cm Max length : 320 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1394); 250 cm TL (female); max. published weight: 284.0 kg (Ref. 1394)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabit tropical to warm temperate coastal waters and they enter rivers, estuaries, and mangroves. Feeding is primarily on nearshore, estuaries and reef fish (Ref. 1394).

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

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. (Ref. 1394)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Vulnerable (VU) (A3cd+4cd); Date assessed: 22 June 2015

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Appendix I: International trade banned

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix II: Migratory species conserved through agreements

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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E-book | Field guide

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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; 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): 22.2 - 29.1, mean 27.9 (based on 4436 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): High vulnerability (58 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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