Project: 
Project A15 - Conservation status of tropical inshore dolphins
Researcher email address: 
simon.allen@uwa.edu.au
Topic: 
marine life
Species of interest in the image: 
Dwarf Spinner dolphin
Species scientific name: 
Stenella longirostris roseiventris
Date: 
May, 2013
Location: 
Off James Price Point WA
Hub imagery ID: 
4486
Depth: 
15m
Habitat: 
Shallow coastal waters
Platform: 
Download
Caption: 
A Dwarf Spinner dolphin surfaces off the Dampier Peninsula, WA.
Media type to be uploaded: 
still image
Attribution: 
UWA
Credit: 
Simon Allen
Contact email address: 
simon.allen@uwa.edu.au
Description: 
A suspected Dwarf Spinner dolphin surfaces off the Dampier Peninsula in WA. Little is known of the species/subspecies composition of spinner dolphins in Australian coastal waters. These diminutive little dolphins like to bow-ride, but they lack the distinctive tripartite markings and the tendency to perform the spectacular, spinning leaps that their larger relatives engage in.