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#0518 · 🦊 mammals

Pacific White-sided Dolphin

🇳🇱 Pacifische Witflankdolfijn ·Aethalodelphis obliquidens

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
Pacific White-sided Dolphin, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,726iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 1,726 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Pacific White-sided Dolphin
Nederlands
Pacifische Witflankdolfijn
scientific name
Aethalodelphis obliquidens
class
Mammalia
order
Artiodactyla
family
Delphinidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
1,726
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Delphinidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1664971. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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