Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) 
AphiaID: 220226

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Sousa

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Sousa Gray, 1866
Synonymised taxa		Delphinus (Steno) lentiginosus Owen, 1866 (synonym) Delphinus chinensis Osbeck, 1765 (basionym) Delphinus plumbeus G. Cuvier, 1829 (synonym) Delphinus sinensis Desmarest, 1822 (synonym) Sotalia borneensis Lydekker, 1901 (synonym) Sotalia chinensis True, 1889 (synonym) Sotalia fergusoni Lydekker, 1903 (synonym) Sotalia lentiginosa (Gray, 1866) (synonym) Sotalia lentiginosus Flower, 1884 (synonym) Sotalia plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829) (synonym) Sotalia plumbeus Flower, 1883 (synonym) Sotalia sinensis Flower, 1883 (synonym) Sousa borneensis Fraser & Purves, 1960 (synonym) Sousa huangi Wang, 1999 (synonym) Sousa lentiginosa Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym) Sousa plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829) (synonym) Sousa queenslandensis Gaskin, 1972 (synonym) Steno chinensis Gray, 1871 (synonym) Steno lentiginosus Blanford, 1891 (synonym) Steno lentiginosus Gray, 1866 (synonym) Steno plumbeus Blanford, 1891 (synonym) Stenopontistes zambezicus Miranda Ribiero, 1936 (synonym)
Sources		basis of record: Jefferson, T. A. and L. Karczmarski. (2001). Sousa chinensis. Mammalian Species 655:1--9. [details] basis of record (from synonym): Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Jefferson, T.A.; Karczmarski, L. (2001). Sousa chinensis. Mammalian species 655: 1-9., available online at http://www.bioone.org/archive/1545-1410/655/1/pdf/i1545-1410-655-1-1.pdf [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Gaskin, D. E. (1972). Whales, dolphins and seals, with special reference to the New Zealand region. Heinemann Educational Books, Auckland. 200pp. page(s): 124 [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Wang, P.-L. (1999). Chinese cetaceans. Ocean Enterprises, Ltd. [China]. [details] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans boggelrugdolfyn  [details] Arabic darfeel  [details] Burmese la-maing  [details] English Bornean dolphin  [details] English Borneo white dolphin  [details] English Chinese white dolphin  [details] English freckled dolphin (from synonym)  [details] English Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin  [details] English Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin  [details] English lead-colored dolphin  [details] English plumbeous dolphin  [details] English ridge-backed dolphin  [details] English speckled dolphin  [details] English white dolphin  [details] English Zhonghua white dolphin  [details] French dauphin à bosse de l'Indo-Pacifique  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba putih  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba timah  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba totol  [details] Japanese usuiro-iruka  [details] Malagasy lambondriaka aman-trafo  [details] Malayalam poonan aedi  [details] Portuguese golfinho-corcunda-do--Indo-pacifico  [details] Sindhi malhar  [details] Sinhala kabara mulla  [details] Southern Balochi goco  [details] Spanish delfín jorobado del Pacífico  [details] Tamil ongil (dolphin in general)  [details] Telugu bolla gadimi  [details] Thai plaloma khaothalenoea  [details] Thai plaloma khaothaletoi  [details] Thai plaloma khaothao  [details] Thai plaloma langnok  [details] Thai plaloma phuak  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish
Distribution		Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (271 nucleotides; 213 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: tropical to warm temperate coastal waters, also in rivers, estuaries and mangroves [details] Holotype: None preserved; original description based on live animals observed in habitat. [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Eastern Taiwan Strait humpback dolphin : Critically Endangered (CR) [details] IUCN Red List Category: Near Threatened (NT) [details] Type locality: Canton River [details]
Images		Sousa chinensis added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-06 21:54:49 Sousa chinensis added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:40:04 Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong added on 2009-04-28 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 23:48:15 Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong. The mother is dumping heat through dilated capillary vessels. added on 2009-04-28 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 23:49:43 Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong added on 2009-04-28 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-28 23:50:49
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220226
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-05-01 08:58:20Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William 2009-03-11 12:36:54Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220226 on 2013-06-19