Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
The Common Dolphin is found in all tropical, subtropical and temperate seas but is rarely found in Shetland waters where photos 1 and 2 were taken.
Common Dolphin - Delphinus delphis.
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) grows to lengths of 2.3m-3.6m (7.5ft-8.5ft) and weights of up to 80kg (175lb). Common dolphins are colorful with a characteristic hourglass-shaped pattern on their sides.
Common Dolphin
: Family Delphinidae : Delphinus delphis Linnaeus
Description. This is a small, slender dolphin with a long, well defined beak. Average length is 2.1 m with a maximum of about 2.6 m. Weight may be up to 135 kg.
Common dolphins are typically 1.7-2.6 m in length and weigh between 70-135 kg. They are fusiform (shaped like a fish) and slender. Their dorsal side is black to brownish black, with varying coloration and markings.
COMMON DOLPHIN
The common dolphin is the fastest of the small dolphins, attaining speeds over 27 miles per hour. Friendly and sociable, it is often seen traveling in schools numbering several hundred.
The Common Dolphin has an attractively marked flank of yellow, buff and grey patches forms a sweeping hour glass shape brought into stark relief by the dark grey upper body and white belly.
Common Dolphin
Description
This species has been divided into subspecies occurring in different seas or oceans, and details of local populations need further study.
Long-beaked Common dolphins in Santa Monica Bay.
Photograph by Cybele May. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
Long-beaked Common dolphins in Santa Monica Bay.
Common Dolphin
Delphinus delphis
Common on offshore trips. Not usually seen on Stellwagen Bank. Rides bow-waves. Yellow above and behind the eye.
Bottle-nosed Dolphin ...
The Common Dolphin
The Common Dolphin (Delphinis delphis) has black flippers and back with yellowish flanks and a white belly.
Common dolphins travel in groups of around 10-50 in number and frequently gather into schools numbering 100 to 2000 individuals. These schools are generally very active socially with groups often surfacing, jumping and splashing together.
Common Dolphin
The common dolphin averages 8 ft (2.4 m) in length and 165 lb (75 kg) in weight. It has a dark blue or black upper body, a white underbody, golden stripes on the sides, and a sickle-shaped dorsal fin.
Common Dolphin (Delphinis delphis) - C
Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) - C
House Mouse (Mus musculus) - C ...
The common dolphin can be found widely distributed in all tropical, sub-tropical and warm-temperate waters.
The common dolphin is a deep water species and it has been known to dive to a depth of 609m (2,000ft) and return immediately to the surface again without any apparent discomfort or injury.
The Common Dolphin is the name given to up to three species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
These common dolphins are sleek and streamlined. They are named after right whales because they both lack dorsal fins.
Subspecies
None.
Life span
Unknown.
Common dolphins are very social, traveling in groups called pods of up to 1,000 animals. Playful and boisterous, they do flips and somersaults, leaping completely out of the water, sometimes as a group.
Long-beaked Common Dolphin (D. capensis) Â- Short-beaked Common Dolphin (D. delphis)
Feresa
Pygmy Killer Whale (F. attenuata) ...
Also known as:
Common Dolphin
Sexual Dimorphism:
Males are 5% larger than females.
The type of the group is the common dolphin (D. delphis) of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, which usually measures 6 to 8 ft. in length, and is thickest near the centre, where the back fin rises to a height of 9 or io in.
There are 33 species of ocean dolphins, including the bottle-nosed dolphin, the spinner dolphin, the killer whale, the pilot whale and the common dolphin.
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Dusky Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)
False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Fraser's Dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei)
Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) ...
Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) ...
longirostris, common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, or, less frequently, striped dolphin, S. coeruleoalba), they attempt to confirm the presence of tuna either with the aid of the helicopter, or from the vessel.
However, when they show the dolphins in the movie they switch between two species dolphins, the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).
CETACEA: Delphinidae (Dolphins and Pilot Whales)
Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
Short-beaked Common Dolphin
Delphinus delphis ...
Almost as soon as we were clear of the shore we encountered a pod of Short-nosed Common Dolphins and large flocks of Fluttering Shearwaters, Flesh-footed Shearwaters and Buller's Shearwaters.
Pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis) is a species of surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in tropical and subtropical waters. They are one of only two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the Mahi-mahi or common ...
 See also: Dolphin, Whale, Squid, Bottlenose, Pilot whale
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