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Dolphin Species


There are six main groups of dolphins: Plain, Narrow Beaked, Lagnorhynchus, Cephalorhynchus, Black Fish and Right Whale Dolphins.

Below is the known list of all species. (Links coming soon)

Plain Dolphins

Common Bottlenose Dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus)

Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus ponticus)

Cowfish
(Tursiops truncatus gillii)

Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
(Tursiops aduncus)

Pacific Humpback Dolphin
(Sousa chinensis)

Indian Humpback Dolphin
(Sousa plumbea)

Atlantic Humpback Dolphin
(Sousa teuszii)

Rough Toothed Dolphin
(Steno bredanensis)

Tucuxi
(Sotalia fluviatilis)

Costero
(Sotalia guianensis)

Narrow Beaked Dolphins

Short Beaked Common Dolphin
(Delphinus delphis)

Black Sea Common Dolphin
(Delphinus delphis ponticus)

Long Beaked Common Dolphin
(Delphinus capensis)

Indo-Pacific Common Dolphin
(Delphinus capensis tropicalis)

Spinner Dolphin
(Stenella longirostris)

Central American Spinner Dolphin
(Stenella longirostris centroamericana)

Asian Spinner Dolphin
(Stenella longirostris orientalis)

Clymene Dolphin
(Stenella clymene)

Striped Dolphin
(Stenella coeruleoalba)

Pantropic Striped Dolphin
(Stenella attenuata)

Eastern Pacific Coastal Striped Dolphin
(Stenella attenuata graffmani)

Atlantic Striped Dolphin
(Stenella frontalis)

Lagnorhynchus & Cephalorhynchus


Fraser's Dolphin
(Lagenodelphis hosei)

White Beaked Dolphin
(Lagnorhynchus albirostris)

Atlantic White Sided Dolphin
Lagnorhynchus acutus)

Pacific White Sided Dolphin
(Lagnorhynchus obliquidens)

Peale's Dolphin
(Lagnorhynchus australis)

Hourglass Dolphin
(Lagnorhynchus cruciger)

Dusky Dolphin (South African)
(Lagnorhynchus obscurus)

South America Dusky Dolphin
(Lagnorhynchus obscurus fitzroyi) 

Commerson's Dolphin
(Cephalorhynchus commersonii)

Chilean Dolphin
(Cephalorhynchus eutropia)

Heaviside' Dolphin
(Cephalorhynchus heavisidii)

Hector's Dolphin
(Cephalorhynchus hectori)

Maui Hector's Dolphin
(Cephalorhynchus hectori maui)

Blackfish and Right Whales

Killer Whale
(Orcinus Orca)

Short Finned Pilot Whale
(Globiceohala macrorhynchus)

Long Finned Pilot Whale 
(North Atlantic)
(Globiceohala melas)

Southern Long Finned Pilot Whale
(Globiceohala melas edwardii)

Pgymy Killer Whale
(Feresa attenuata)

Melon Headed Whale
(Peponocephala electra)

False Killer Whale
(Pseudorca crassidens)

Risso's Dolphin 
(Grampus griseus)

Northern Right Whale Dolphin
(Lissodelphis borealis)

Southern Right Whale Dolphin
(Lissodelphis peronii)