Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 190-191

350. Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)

Common name: Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin Myanmar name:

Distribution: Coastal waters and rivers from False Bay, South Africa, east to Southern China and Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In Myanmar, recorded in the nearshore waters of the Myeik Archipelago ( Smith and Tun 2008). Remarks: Taxonomy of this species is currently in dispute. As currently defined, S. chinensis consists of at least two types, plumbea type in the western Indian Ocean from South

Africa to the east coast of India, and chinensis, also from the east coast of India, China, and Australia ( Wilson and Mittermeier 2014). This species is listed as vulnerable and completely protected species of Myanmar.