What are types of dolphins?

Long-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus capensis. Short-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops aduncus.

What are three types of dolphins?

Different Breeds of Dolphins

• Common Dolphin: The common dolphin is a name that refers to two different species of dolphins, which include the short-beaked common dolphin and the long-beaked common dolphin.
• Bottlenose Dolphins:
• Atlantic Spotted Dolphins:

What are the five types of dolphins?

How Many Dolphin Species Are There?

• Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncates)
• Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)
• Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
• Commerson’s Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)
• Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus)
• Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
• Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)

How many types of dolphin do we have?

42 dolphin species
Currently there are 42 dolphin species and 7 porpoise species which are grouped into six families: the oceanic dolphin family is by far the largest with 38 members; the porpoise family has seven members; and there are four river dolphin families, each containing just one species.

What is the most common type of dolphins?

bottlenose dolphin
bottlenose dolphin The bottlenose is the perhaps the most familiar dolphin species due to its adaptability to captive life (and consequent ubiquity in marine parks).

Is orca a dolphin?

Killer whales are part of the dolphin family. There are three main types of killer whales, or ecotypes, in the North Pacific: Resident, Transient, and Offshore. In fact, they are the largest member of the Delphinidae, or dolphin family. Resident killer whales usually eat different varieties of fish, primarily salmon.

What is the rarest dolphin?

Hector’s dolphins
Facts. Hector’s dolphins are the smallest and rarest marine dolphins in the world. They have distinct black facial markings, short stocky bodies and a dorsal fin shaped like a Mickey Mouse ear.

What do you call a white dolphin?

Pacific white-sided dolphins, known for the distinct coloring that give them their name, are a playful and highly social marine mammal. They are also sometimes known as the “hookfin porpoise” because of their large, curved dorsal fin, though they are not technically porpoises.

Is a narwhal a porpoise?

The narwhal is the unicorn of the sea, a pale-colored porpoise found in Arctic coastal waters and rivers.

Is Mahi a dolphin baby?

Apparently few answers exist about how and why the term “dolphin” became attached to the mahi mahi fish. In fact, the etymology of the word “dolphin” reveals that the term originally meant “womb.” So the word fits the dolphin, the marine mammal, since female dolphins give birth to live young; they have wombs.