Pseudorca crassidens | Red List of Bangladesh Volume 2: Mammals
Taxa
Pseudorca crassidens | (Owen, 1846)
Publication
NRL Record ID
327628
Asessment status in full
Data Deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
There are only two sightings of Pseudorca crassidens have been reported: first one with about 30 individuals in the Swatch of No-ground in 2011, and second one with about 40 individuals in the offshore south of S. Martin's Island in 2012. One carcass was reported in the Daily Azadi newspaper of Chittagong on 28 December, 2010. There is no information available on its population size, threats or population trend. Thus, the species has been assessed as Data Deficient.
Assessment year
2015
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Md. Zahangir Alom
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
NGO
Academic
Assessor affiliation specific
Academic|NGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN (2012) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp; IUCN (2012) Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://iucnredlistbd.org/
Endemic to region
No
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: No
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Not assessed yet (IUCN Bangladesh 2000).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pseudorca crassidens | Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae | Pseudorca |