'Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi'
Abstract
Strandings of two Indian Ocean humpback dolphins
along Uttara Kannada coast of Karnataka, during
November, 2019 and April 2020 is reported. One dead
dolphin was washed ashore at Murdeshwar beach
of Bhatkal taluk on 11.4.2020 in decayed condition
(Fig 1). Based on the external characters, with the
help of the available photograph it was identified
as a female Indian Ocean humpback dolphin Sousa
plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829). It had beached about
one kilometre away from the northern side of the
Murdeshwar Temple,surrounded on three sides by
Arabian sea
