One of the 17 dolphins on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Delphinidae
Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin
Sousa chinensis
Vulnerable
At high risk of extinction in the wild over the medium term.
The Chinese white dolphin is an odontocete cetacean of the family Delphinidae. This species lives in South-East Asia, between the Bay of Bengal, the southern coast of Indonesia and the west coast of Taiwan. Phylogenetic studies have separated the Chinese white dolphin from the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, which lives from the coasts of Africa to those of India, and from the Australian humpback dolphin, which was thought to be a subspecies of the latter until 2014.
Weight
150 kg – 230 kg
Size
2 m – 2.8 m
Life expectancy
40 years
