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38 Species in Family Delphinidae
Nominal species list for Delphinidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb, Gershwin, Thompson, Austin, Owen & McKechnie, 2011 Burrunan dolphin
Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1833) Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Steno bredanensis (Cuvier, 1828) Rough-toothed dolphin
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) Spinner dolphin
Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829) Atlantic spotted dolphin
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) Striped dolphin
Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850) Clymene dolphin
Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) Pantropical spotted dolphin
Sousa sahulensis Jefferson & Rosenbaum, 2014 Australian humpback dolphin
Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892) Atlantic hump-backed dolphin
Sousa plumbea (Cuvier, 1829)
Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) Pacific humpback dolphin
Sotalia guianensis (Van Beneden, 1864)
Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville, 1853) Tucuxi
Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) False killer whale
Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846) Melon-headed whale
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Killer whale
Orcaella heinsohni Beasley, Robertson & Arnold, 2005 Australian snubfin dolphin
Orcaella brevirostris (Owen, 1866) Irrawaddy dolphin
Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804) Southern right whale dolphin
Lissodelphis borealis (Peale, 1848) Northern right whale dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828) Dusky dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865 Pacific white-sided dolphin
Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Hourglass dolphin
Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848) Peale's dolphin
Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846) White-beaked dolphin
Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828) Atlantic white-sided dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser, 1956 Fraser's dolphin
Grampus griseus (Cuvier, 1812) Risso's dolphin
Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) Long-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 Short-finned pilot whale
Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874 Pygmy killer whale
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Common dolphin
Cephalorhynchus hectori (van Bénéden, 1881) Hector's dolphin
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828) Heaviside's dolphin
Cephalorhynchus eutropia Gray, 1846 Black dolphin
Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) Commerson's dolphin
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