Species Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, Gershwin, Thompson, Austin, Owen & McKechnie, 2011

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• Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, K., Gershwin, L., Thompson, R., Austin, J., Owen, K. & McKechnie, S. 2011. A new dolphin species, the Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., endemic to southern Australian coastal waters. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 6(9): 1-17 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype QVM 1365 ♀ ('previously published as the female of the southern form of Tursiops maugeanus Iredale & Troughton, 1934'), Hobblers Bridge, North Esk River, 5 km upstream from Tamar River.
  Paratype(s) NMV 17 specimens, ♂ and ♀ (also in TMAG), from Port Philip Bay and Gippsland Lakes, Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)