Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin at Merimbula, NSW
Identification history
| Delphinus delphis | 16 Jul 2017 | RossMannell |
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User's notes
Spotted this dolphin pod swimming parallel and about 50m out. I was able to follow along Middle Beach and capture some photos. The pod seems to include young.
7 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
10 Aug 2017
In the second photo with a bit of face out of the water, the beak looks short and stubby. Also the base of the fin is relatively broad. According to my mammals field guide this would make it Bottlenose Dolphin, not Common. But I'm afraid I'm not confident enough to confirm that.
LizAllen
wrote:
12 Dec 2017
This is most likely to be a Bottlenose Dolphin...Tursiops aduncas are the inshore Bottlenose Dolphins....shown from DNA research along the East coast .
JackieMiles
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
Hi Liz, My mammals field guide only shows aduncas coming down the east coast as far as Port Macquarie. But it is an oldish edition, so that info could be out of date.
LizAllen
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
Hi Jackie, I have 'insider' information ,T.aduncas are right down to Twofold bay...Papers published by Simon Allen et al [UWA]now.....
JackieMiles
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
OK, so do you want to suggest and maybe even confirm this sighting as T. aduncas?
JackieMiles
wrote:
19 Mar 2018
Good on you Liz. Good to keep the unidentified lists short if possible.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.930573-36.892664
- Places Merimbula, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 18 May 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
- RossMannell Recorded by
Species information
- Tursiops aduncus Scientific name
- Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Machine learning
