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