
Tursiops aduncus
iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Garden Route National Park are the two atlas places where the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin is recorded. Its records gather most thickly in Australia, New Caledonia, and Réunion. The atlas holds 4,628 open records of the species from 13 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
Recorded seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months when the dolphin is recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
