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A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).
Young fisherman with dolphinfish from Santorini, Greece, c. 1600 BCE (Minoan civilization). The mahi-mahi (/ ˌ m ɑː h i ˈ m ɑː h i / MAH-hee-MAH-hee) [3] or common dolphinfish [2] (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide.
Dolphin Hotel (disambiguation), the name of several establishments; Dolphin Inn, Plymouth, UK; The Dolphin, Hackney, London, UK; Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a manufacturer of high speed data communication systems; Dolphin Music, an online retailer of musical instruments and recording equipment; Byford Dolphin, a drilling rig
A captive Amazon river dolphin housed at Acuario de Valencia is the only trained river dolphin in captivity. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Here is a list of all the cetaceans that have been taken into captivity for either conservation, research or human entertainment and education purposes currently or in the past, temporarily or permanently.
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with a global population of about six million. [3] Despite this fact and its vernacular name, the common dolphin is not thought of as the archetypal dolphin, with that distinction belonging to the bottlenose dolphin due to its popular appearances in aquaria and the media.
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.
The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops.The common bottlenose dolphin is a very familiar dolphin due to the wide exposure it receives in human care in marine parks and dolphinariums, and in movies and television programs. [5]
Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes, and is currently the only known genus in the family Coryphaenidae.The generic name is from Greek κορυφή (koryphē, "crown, top") and -αινα (-aina, feminine suffix). [1]