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Mauritania

International or regional conventions

Mauritania is a member/signatory to the following international and regional Conventions related to cetacean conservation:

Confirmed observations

“In northern Mauritania near Nouadhibou, there are four sightings from Baie de l’Etoile and three from the Banc de la Corbine in the Baie du Lévrier. However, the majority of Mauritanian records are from the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (PNBA), a World Heritage site located between Nouadhibou and Nouamghar. In the northern part of the PNBA, sightings are clustered in Baie d’Arguin both along the mainland coast and around the islands. There are sporadic records southwards along the coast, including off Cap El Zass, Baie de Tanoudert, Ten Alloul and Îles Kiaones.  However, most records originate from a relatively small area of the PNBA comprising the waters between Iwik and Baie Aouatif on the mainland and the islands of Arel, Niroumi and Nair to the north of Îles Tidra. The PNBA base is located at Iwik, which may contribute to explaining the greater number of records in this region. In the southern part of the PNBA, there are scattered records from around Îles Tidra, Kiji and Cheddid and on the mainland at Teichott, R’Gueiba and along the Cap Timiris peninsula to the Grande Plage south of Nouamghar. There are only two records reported along the approximately 380 km stretch of Mauritanian coast south of the PNBA: a sighting and a stranding south of Nouakchott.”

Threats and trends

No abundance estimates or detailed information on threats are available for S. teuszii in Mauritania.

Report

Report a sighting or stranding by contacting one of the foal points below or emailing info@sousateuszii.org

Contact person

Abdellahi Samba Bilal

  • abdellahis@yahoo.fr
  • (+222) 2262 10 36
  • Institut Mauritanien de Recherches Océanographiques et des Pêches (IMROP)
  • Laboratoire d’Ecologie et Biologie des Organisme Aquatique (LEBOA)

Moulaye Mohamed Wagne

Cheibani  Senhoury

  • ame_mr@yahoo.fr
  • Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (PNBA) http://www.pnba.mr/pnba/

Relevant country-specific references

  1. Busnel R. 1973. Relation symbiotique entre hommes et dauphins sauvages. Revue du Palais de la Decouverte, 9: 15-28.
  2. Collins, T., 2015. Re-assessment of the Conservation Status of the Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (Sousa teuszii), Using the IUCN Red List Criteria. In Advances in marine biology Volume 72, pp. 47-77). Academic Press.
  3. Fraser FC. 1973. Record of a dolphin (Sousa teuszii) from the coast of Mauritania. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 35: 132-135.
  4. Maigret J. 1980. Donnees nouvelles sur l’ecologie du Sousa teuszii (Cetacea, Delphinidae) de la côte ouest Africaine. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, 42A: 619-633.
  5. Maigret J. 1981. Les mammiferes marins des côtes de Mauritanie. 2. Rapport annuel des observations signalees en 1981. Bulletin du Centre National de Recherches Océanographiques et des Pêches de Nouadhibou, 10: 81-85.
  6. Maigret J, Trotignon J, Duguy R. 1976. Observations de cétacés sur les côtes de Mauritanie (1971-1975). Journal du Conseil International pour l’Exploration de la Mer, Comite de Mammifères Marins, 1976/N, 4: 7 pp.
  7. Nieri M, Lamarche B, Sakho AC (eds). 1996. Note complète sur les échouages de dauphins survenus en Decembre 1995.
  8. Pelletier FX. Symbiose entre l’Ambrig et le dauphin sur la Cote Mauritanienne. In: Anonymous (ed)1975: Institut International Ethnosciences, Paris. pp. 171-176.
  9. Robineau D, Vély M. 1998. Les cétacés de Mauritanie (Afrique du nord-ouest). Particularités et variations spatio-temporelles de répartition: rôle des facteurs océanographiques. Revue d’Ecologie (la Terre et la Vie), 53: 123-152.
  10. Van Waerebeek, K., Barnett, L., Camara, A., Cham, A., Diallo, M., Djiba, A., Jallow, A.O., Ndiaye, E., Bilal, A.O. and Bamy, I.L., 2004. Distribution, status, and biology of the Atlantic humpback dolphin, Sousa teuszii (Kukenthal, 1892). Aquatic Mammals, 30(1), pp.56-83.
  11. Weir CR, Collins T. 2015. A Review of the Geographical Distribution and Habitat of the Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (Sousa teuszii). In: Jefferson TA, Curry BC editors. Advances in Marine Biology Volume 72: Humpback dolphins (Sousa spp.) current status and conservation: Part I. Academic Press. p. 79-117.