List of Dolphin Species

There are many different dolphin species.

Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)

Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin (Sousa teuszii)
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
Atlantic White Sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Chilean Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia)
Chinese River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
Clymene Dolphin (Stenella clymene)
Commerson's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)

Dusky Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)

False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Fraser's Dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei)

Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica)

Heaviside's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii)
Hector's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori)
Hourglass Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger)

Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis and Sousa plumbea)
Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor)
Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)

Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)

La Plata River Dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei)
Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis)
Long-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas)

Melon-Headed Whale (Peponocephala electra)

Northern Rightwhale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)

Pacific White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Peale's Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)
Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata)

Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus)
Rough-Toothed Dolphin (Steno bredanensis)

Short-Beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Short-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissiodelphis peronii)
Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)

Tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis)

White-Beaked Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)

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