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Oceanic Dolphins
Delphinidae
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea. Thirty extant species are described. They include several big species whose common names contain "whale" rather than "dolphin", such as the killer whale and the pilot whales. Delphinidae is a family within the superfamily Delphinoidea, which also includes the porpoises (Phocoenidae) and the Monodontidae (beluga whale and narwhal). River dolphins are relatives of the Delphinoidea.
6 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 38 known species
Long-nosed Dolphins
subfamilyDelphininae
Orcinus
genusOrcinus
Pilot Whales and allies
subfamilyGlobicephalinae
Right Whale Dolphins and allies
subfamilyLissodelphininae
Leucopleurus
genusLeucopleurus
Lagenorhynchus
genusLagenorhynchus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 41479.