Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Delphinidae
Genus:	Tursiops
Species:	T. aduncus
Binomial name
	Tursiops aduncus; (Ehrenberg, 1833)
Subspecies
	T. aduncus australis (Burrunan dolphin);
	Distribution of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Synonyms
	Delphinus aduncus Ehrenberg, 1833 ; Delphinus hamatus Wiegmann, 1841 ; Delphinus abusalam Rüppell, 1842 ; Tursiops catalania Gray, 1862 ; Tursio abusalam Gray, 1866 ; Steno gadamu Gray, 1866 ; Sotalia gadumu Owen, 1866 ; Clymenia gudamu Gray, 1868 ; Delphinus salam Van Beneden, 1886 ; Sotalia perniger Trouessart, 1898 ; Tursiops fergusoni Lydekker, 1903 ; Tursiops abusalam Trouessart, 1904 ; Tursiops truncatus aduncus Hershkovitz, 1966 ; Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, et al, 2011 ;

The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) is a species of bottlenose dolphin. This dolphin grows to 2.6 m (8.5 ft) long, and weighs up to 230 kg (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.

The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin is generally smaller than the common bottlenose dolphin, has a proportionately longer rostrum, and has spots on its belly and lower sides. It also has more teeth than the common bottlenose dolphin — 23 to 29 teeth on each side of each jaw compared to 21 to 24 for the common bottlenose dolphin.

Much of the old scientific data in the field combine data about the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and the common bottlenose dolphin into a single group, making it effectively useless in determining the structural differences between the two species. The IUCN lists the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin as "near threatened" in their Red List of endangered species.

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