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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 ...
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).
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.
The new species, dubbed Tamanend’s bottlenosed dolphin, are smaller than their offshore common bottlenosed counterparts and have spines adapted to navigating the tight spaces of rivers and ...
Researchers with NOAA and the University of Miami, among others, worked for eight years studying 147 skulls and 43 spines of stranded bottlenose dolphins. Some specimens were found in South ...
Turns out South Carolina’s river dolphins are even more unique than were previously known. New dolphin species discovered along SC coast, study shows. What makes them unique
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca. It is found in oceans worldwide but mainly in tropical regions. It was first described in 1846 as a species of porpoise based on a skull, which was revised when the first carcasses were observed in 1861.
The dolphin genus Sotalia is considered to have two member species with the classification of Sotalia guianensis [3] [4] as a distinct species from Sotalia fluviatilis [5] [6] in 2007. This was a result of recent morphometric analyses, as well as mitochondrial DNA analysis.