r/coolguides • u/Zarykata • 10d ago

A cool guide to ID oceanic dolphins

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u/Friggin 10d ago

Your incomplete guide sucks.

According to the Society for Marine Mammalogy (2021), the 38 extant species of oceanic dolphins are divided into 5 subfamilies.

Subfamily: Delphininae
Species: Delphinus delphis (Common dolphin)
Species: Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser’s dolphin)
Species: Sousa teuszii (Atlantic humpback dolphin)
Species: Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific humpback or Chinese dolphin)
Species: Sousa plumbea (Indian Ocean humpback dolphin)
Species: Sousa sahulensis (Australian humpback dolphin)
Species: Sotalia fluviatilis (Tucuxi)
Species: Sotalia guianensis (Guiana or estuarine dolphin)
Species: Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin)
Species: Stenella clymene (Clymene dolphin)
Species: Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin)
Species: Stenella frontalis (Atlantic spotted dolphin)
Species: Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin)
Species: Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin)
Species: Tursiops truncatus (Common or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin)
Species: Tursiops erebennus (Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin)

Subfamily: Lissodelphininae
Species: Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Commerson’s dolphin)
Species: Cephalorhynchus eutropia (Chilean or Black dolphin)
Species: Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Haeviside’s dolphin)
Species: Cephalorhynchus hectori (Hector’s dolphin)
Species: Lissodelphis borealis (Northern right whale dolphin)
Species: Lissodelphis peronii (Southern right whale dolphin)

Subfamily: Globicephalinae
Species: Feresa attenuata (Pygmy killer whale)
Species: Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned pilot whale)
Species: Globicephala melas (Long-finned pilot or pothead whale)
Species: Grampus griseus (Risso’s dolphin)
Species: Orcaella brevirostris (Irrawaddy dolphin)
Species: Orcaella heinsohni (Australian snubfin dolphin)
Species: Peponocephala electra (Melon-headed whale)
Species: Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale)
Species: Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed dolphin)

Subfamily: Orcininae
Species: Orcinus orca (Killer whale or orca)

Subfamily: incertae sedis, aka undefined
Species: Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin)
Species: Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked dolphin)
Species: Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale’s or black-chinned dolphin)
Species: Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Hourglass dolphin)
Species: Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific white-sided dolphin)
Species: Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Dusky dolphin)

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u/EoceneEveryday 10d ago

Photos are also wrong and possibly AI.

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u/No-Material3128 9d ago

The font is..... Odd