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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 ...
Additionally, there was an observation of snubfin dolphins displaying mating courtship between Australian humpback dolphins. [ 12 ] Both the Australian snubfin dolphin and the Australian humpback dolphin co-occur throughout much of the tropical Northern waters of Australia, and have similar vocal repertoires consisting of click trains, burst ...
Scientists found that members of the new species are smaller than their offshore common bottlenose counterparts, eat different fish and have spines adapted to navigating the tight spaces of rivers ...
South America is one. More recently, cleanup crews in Louisiana who were working deep in the salt marsh following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 witnessed dolphins feeding in an unusual ...
Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living genus, Inia, and four extinct genera.The extant genus inhabits the river basins of South America, but the family formerly had a wider presence across the Atlantic Ocean.
A December 2006 survey found no members of Lipotes vexillifer (commonly known as the baiji, or Chinese river dolphin) and declared the species functionally extinct. [4] The current classification of river dolphins is as follows: [3] [5] [6] Life reconstruction of Arktocara yakataga, an allodelphinid. Superfamily Platanistoidea Family Platanistidae
Scientists found microplastics in the exhaled breath of 11 dolphins, according to a new study. A wild bottlenose dolphin receives a health assessment in Louisiana's Barataria Bay, in 2018.
Globicephalinae is a subfamily of oceanic dolphins that includes the pilot whales (Globicephala spp.), the pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), the rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis), the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens), the melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), and the snubfin dolphins (Orcaella spp.).