Oceanic dolphin (redirect from Delphinidae)
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea. Close to forty extant species are recognised. They include...
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Orcinus is a genus of Delphinidae, the family of carnivorous marine mammals known as dolphins. It includes the largest delphinid species, Orcinus orca...
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the Sarawak dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the...
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all the world's oceans. It is a member of the oceanic dolphin family, Delphinidae. The striped dolphin, also known as the euphrosyne dolphin, is one of...
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dolphins composed of 1 living and 3 extinct genera. It may be superseded by Delphinidae. Its only extant member is the orca (Orcinus orca); all other extant...
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Cephalorhynchus is a genus in the dolphin family Delphinidae. It consists of four species: The species have similar physical features—they are small,...
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contain several hundred individuals. The monodontids, oceanic dolphins (Delphinidae) and porpoises (Phocoenidae) together comprise the Delphinoidea superfamily...
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List of marine mammal species (section Delphinidae)
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific...
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other marine mammals. Oceanic dolphins are the members of the family Delphinidae. As the name implies, they tend to be found in the open seas, unlike...
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longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a member of the family Delphinidae of toothed whales. The spinner dolphin is sometimes referred to as the...
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(Lagenorhynchus albirostris) is a marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) in the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales). The species...
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Stenella is a genus of marine mammals in Delphinidae, the family informally known as the oceanic dolphins. Currently, five species are recognised in this...
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many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). The common name is derived from the head shape. Melon-headed whales...
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the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale). Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae...
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things) to a whale species, perhaps a narwhal. As part of the family Delphinidae, the species is more closely related to other oceanic dolphins than to...
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species of pilot whales, all of which are classified under the family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins). Each species has a different reason for it, for example...
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Delphinus delphis Delphinidae Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus Delphinidae Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas Delphinidae Risso's dolphin...
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This is a list of Nova Scotian mammals. Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) Red bat (Lasiurus borealis) Northern long-eared...
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Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Genus: Cephalorhynchus Species: C. hectori Subspecies: C. h. maui Trinomial...
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List of artiodactyls (section Family Delphinidae)
Whippomorpha contains fourteen, Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Kogiidae, Lipotidae, Monodontidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae...
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Septidelphis is an extinct genus of oceanic dolphins belonging to the family (Delphinidae). The type species is Septidelphis morii. This genus is known in the...
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List of mammals of Texas (section Delphinidae)
Delphinidae Species Common name Distribution Status Image Delphinus delphis Short-beaked common dolphin Feresa attenuata Pygmy killer whale Globicephala...
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Fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) LC Long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) LC Northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) NT California myotis (Myotis...
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of Delphinidae, especially within and among the Lissodelphinae, have not been resolved unambiguously, yet. This is because the family Delphinidae contains...
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its significance as a visible indicator of health status in dolphins (Delphinidae): a review" (PDF). Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology. 7 (1):...
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Delphinidae (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked...
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Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Genus: Orcinus Species: †O. paleorca Binomial name †Orcinus paleorca...
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genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Molecular studies show the genus contains...
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List of mammals of Sweden (section Family: Delphinidae)
There are 84 mammal species (with two uncertain) recorded in Sweden according to the IUCN Red List. Two are endangered, one is vulnerable as well now extinct...
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is not related to the marine mammals also known as dolphins (family Delphinidae). See Coryphaena for the possible etymologies of "dolphinfish". Pompano...
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