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The Australian snubfin dolphin is unusual among recently described mammals in that a population is accessible for scientific study. Nonetheless, the existence of snubfin dolphins in the waters of northern Australia had only become known to western scientists in 1948, when a skull was collected at Melville Bay (Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory).
The snubfin dolphins (Orcaella) contain two of the 35 species of oceanic dolphins that make up the Cetacean family of Delphinidae. [5] The phylogenetic status of Orcaella has long been confused. Although the snubfin dolphins share similar external features with the Monodontidae (narwhal), [ 2 ] a genetic study conducted by Arnason and ...
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus DD; Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus LC (ssp. truncatus - Atlantic bottlenose dolphin Fiordland subpopulation CR and Mediterranean subpopulation VU, ssp. gillii - Pacific bottlenose dolphin, ssp. poncticus - Black Sea bottlenose dolphin CR) Burrunan dolphin, Tursiops australis NE
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A total of 65 Irrawaddy dolphins has been found dead along the coast of Trat Province in the past three years. [68] The local fishing industry is blamed for the deaths of the dolphins. [69] In January 2013, over a dozen dead Irrawaddy dolphins were found on the coast of Thailand. These dolphins were said to be dead because of a lack of oxygen.
Dolphins live along the Myrtle Beach, S.C. coast year round. Learn about the habits of these residents and how to spot the locals.
La Plata dolphins are exclusively marine organisms, however, they are grouped with river dolphins due to the fact that they reside in the La Plata River which is a salt-water estuary. With their white or sometimes pale brown coloration, fishermen tend to call them "the white ghost", as they also tend to stray away from any human interaction.
A dead dolphin was found with multiple gunshot wounds on a beach in Louisiana, with investigators now offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information.. The young bottlenose dolphin was ...