Tuesday, March 19, 2019

ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN

Photographed sw of Ashmore Reef, March 2019

111                   ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN                   Steno bredanensis  

AUSTRALIAN                  111

Found in deep warm and tropical waters around the world; inhabit Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea. Estimated world population 150,000. Very social animals, always in pods, usually between 10 and 20.




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