Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Cetacea > Delphinidae

Delphinidae (dolphins, killer whales, pilot whales, and relatives)

Synonyms:

Genus

Anacharsis (1)
Arimidelphis (1)
Astadelphis (2)
Australodelphis (1)
Cephalorhynchus (black dolphin, Commerson's dolphin, Heaviside's dolphin, and Hector's dolphin) (4)   (1)
Delphinus (saddleback dolphin) (13)
Eodelphinus (1)
Etruridelphis (1)
Feresa (pygmy killer whale) (1)
Globicephala (pilot whales) (6)
Grampus (Risso's dolphin) (1)
Lagenodelphis (Fraser's dolphin) (3)
Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins, white-sided dolphins, and relatives) (7)
Lissodelphis (right whale dolphins) (4)
Norisdelphis (1)
Orcaella (Irrawaddy dolphin) (2)   (1)
Orcinus (killer whale and orca) (4)
Peponocephala (melon-headed whale) (1)
Platalearostrum (1)
Pliodelphis (1)
Protoglobicephala (1)
Pseudorca (false killer whale) (2)
Septidelphis (1)
Sotalia (tucuxi) (2)   (1)
Sousa (humpbacked dolphins) (4)   (2)
Stenella (spinner dolphins, spotted dolphins, and striped dolphins) (6)
Steno (rough-toothed dolphin) (2)
Tursiops (bottlenose dolphin) (8)

(...) = Species count
(...) = Endangered count
(...) = Invasive count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0