We all adore dolphins and whales – what the beautiful and magnificent creatures they are!
Family Delphinidae (39 species)
Please meet Oceanic dolphins - the members of the Delphinidae family, of the order Cetacea.
1. Cephalorhynchus commersonii Commerson's dolphin, piebald dolphin, tonina dolphin, black-and-white dolphin, panda dolphin, skunk dolphin.
2. Cephalorhynchus eutropia Chilean dolphin, white-bellied dolphin, black dolphin, Chilean black dolphin.
3. Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Heaviside's Dolphin, South African Dolphin, Benguela Dolphin.
4. Cephalorhynchus hectori Hector's Dolphin, white-headed dolphin, New Zealand white-front dolphin, New Zealand dolphin.
5. Delphinus capensis long-beaked common dolphin, common dolphin, Baja-neritic common dolphin.
6. Delphinus delphis short-beaked common dolphin, short-beaked saddleback dolphin, saddle-backed dolphin, Atlantic dolphin, Pacific dolphin.
7. Feresa attenuata pygmy killer whale, slender blackfish, feresa, slender pilot whale, blackfish.
8. Globicephala macrorhynchus short-finned pilot whale, North Pacific pilot whale, southern blackfish, Indian pilot whale, pothead whale, blackfish.
9. Globicephala melas long-finned pilot whale, common blackfish, black whale.
10. Grampus griseus Risso’s dolphin, gray grampus, Risso's grampus, grey dolphin
11. Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser’s dolphin, Sarawak Dolphin, Bornean dolphin, Hose's dolphin.
12. Lagenorhynchus acutus Atlantic white-sided dolphin, jumper, Eschricht's dolphin, skunk porpoise.
13. Lagenorhynchus albirostris white-beaked dolphin, white-beaked bottlenose, white-nosed dolphin. Length
14. Lagenorhynchus australis Peale’s dolphin, blackchin dolphin, southern white-sided dolphin, black-chinned dolphin.
15. Lagenorhynchus cruciger hourglass dolphin, sea skunk, ‘sea cow’, springer.
16. Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Pacific white-sided dolphin, bottle nose grampus, hookfin porpoise, Pacific striped dolphin.
17. Lagenorhynchus obscurus dusky dolphin, Fitzroy’s dolphin, beakless dolphin.
18. Lissodelphis borealis northern right-whale dolphin, white bellied right whale dolphin, snake porpoise, right-whale porpoise, Pacific rightwhale porpoise.
19. Lissodelphis peronii southern right-whale dolphin, Peron's dolphin.
20. Orcaella brevirostris Irrawaddy dolphin, orcelle, pesut, Irawadi dolphin, snubfin dolphin, Irawaddy river dolphin, larger Indian porpoise.
21. Orcaella heinsohni Australian snubfin dolphin.
22. Orcinus orca killer whale, orca, blackfish, grampus, swordfish, sword grampus, killer-trasher
23. Peponocephala electra melon-headed whale, many-toothed blackfish, "melon whale", electra dolphin, Hawaiian blackfish, Indian broad-beaked dolphin.
24. Pseudorca crassidens false killer whale, blackfish, bubble.
25. Sousa chinensis Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, Chinese white dolphin, Pacific humpback dolphin, pink dolphin, Bornean dolphin, lead-colored dolphin.
26. Sousa plumbea Indian humpback dolphin, Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, Plumbeous humpback dolphin, speckled dolphin, freckled dolphin.
27. Sousa sahulensis Australian humpback dolphin, Sahul dolphin.
28. Sousa teuszii Atlantic humpback dolphin, Teusz's dolphin, Cameroon dolphin, West Africa's Atlantic humpback dolphin.
29. Sotalia fluviatilis tucuxi dolphin, Brazilian dolphin, tucuxi, gray dolphin, Guianian river dolphin, estuarine dolphin, gray river dolphin, bouto dolphin, sotalia.
30. Sotalia guianensis Guiana dolphin, costero, Guyana river dolphin, freshwater tucuxi, sotalia.
31. Stenella attenuata pantropical spotted dolphin, bridled dolphin, narrow-snouted dolphin, coastal spotted dolphin, Hawaiian spotted porpoise, kiko, spotter, slender-beaked dolphin.
32. Stenella clymene clymene dolphin, helmet dolphin, Atlantic spinner dolphin, short-snouted spinner dolphin, Senegal dolphin.
33. Stenella coeruleoalba striped dolphin, Euphrosyne dolphin, blue-white dolphin, Gray's dolphin, streaker porpoise, whitebelly, Meyen's dolphin.
34. Stenella frontalis Atlantic spotted dolphin, bridled dolphin, cape dolphin, gamin, Gulf Stream spotted dolphin, narrow-snouted dolphin.
35. Stenella longirostris spinner dolphin, long-beaked dolphin, long-snouted dolphin, eastern spinner, small-headed dolphin, rollover, whitebelly spinner, long-nosed dolphin.
36. Steno bredanensis rough-toothed dolphin, black porpoise, steno.
37. Tursiops aduncus Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin, Red Sea bottlenose dolphin, southern bottlenose dolphin.
38. Tursiops australis burrunan dolphin, burrunan bottle-nosed dolphin.
39. Tursiops truncatus common bottlenose dolphin, Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose porpoise.
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