Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1833) — also called Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin, Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin, Red Sea bottlenose dolphin. Occurrence records of the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin are shared on GBIF from around 19 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Turtle Beaches / Coral Reefs of Tongaland (22 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: Near threatenedDelphinidae

19reserves with records

144records around them

3provinces

NTIUCN category

Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) — Photo: Aude Steiner · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Turtle Beaches / Coral Reefs of TongalandMarine protected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	22
Garden Route National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	18
Table Mountain National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	12
Tsitsikamma National ParkNational park	EC Eastern Cape	12
Tsitsikamma Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	EC Eastern Cape	12
Silvermine Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	11
St. James SpringNature reserve	WC Western Cape	11
Sodwana Bay National ParkNational park	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	7
Jukani Predator ParkNature reserve	WC Western Cape	7
Muizenberg CaveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	6
De Hoop Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	5
The WaterberryNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	4
Robberg Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	3
T.C. Robertson Nature ReserveNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	3
Skyline Nature ReserveNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	3
Brenton Blue Butterfly Special Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2
Wilderness National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	2
Walker Bay Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2
Seal IslandNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2

By province

Western Cape: 12 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 5 reserves
Eastern Cape: 2 reserves

Taxonomy

Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Family: Delphinidae
Scientific name: Tursiops aduncus
GBIF taxon: 2440455
Wikidata: Q370597

More of the Delphinidae family

Bottlenose Dolphin Haviside's Dolphin Indian Ocean humpback dolphin Short-beaked Common Dolphin Spinner Dolphin

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.