Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) . Reise nach Ostind. China Rostock, 1:7.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Guangdong Prov., Zhujiang Kou (mouth of Canton River) .

DISTRIBUTION: Indian Ocean: coastal waters and rivers from False Bay, South Africa, east to S China and Moreton Bay, Queensland (Australia, see Corkeron, 1990).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: borneensis, lentiginosa, plumbea, zambezicus .

COMMENTS: See Perrin (1975) who placed Delphinus malayanus in Stenella attenuata, as is done here; Pilleri and Gihr (1973-74) considered borneensis, plumbea and lentiginosa to be distinct species. Mitchell (1975) combined those species into S. chinensis; Brownell (1975b) included Stenopontistes zambezicus as a synonym of S. plumbea .