#0518 · 🦊 mammals
Pacific White-sided Dolphin
🇳🇱 Pacifische Witflankdolfijn ·Aethalodelphis obliquidens
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base stats
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
#0051 📷 7Common Dolphin
🇳🇱 Gewone Dolfijn
Delphinus delphis
LC 👀 5 in NL
#0060 📷 9White-beaked Dolphin
🇳🇱 Witsnuitdolfijn
Lagenorhynchus albirostris
LC 👀 3 in NL
#0062 📷 9Orca
🇳🇱 Orka
Orcinus orca
DD 👀 2 in NL
#0064 📷 8Long-finned Pilot Whale
🇳🇱 Griend
Globicephala melas
LC 👀 2 in NL
#0067 📷 8Common Bottlenose Dolphin
🇳🇱 Tuimelaar
Tursiops truncatus
LC 👀 1 in NL
#0346 📷 10Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphin
Tursiops erebennus
🌍 4.4k seen
#0379 📷 9Spinner Dolphin
🇳🇱 Langsnuitdolfijn
Stenella longirostris
LC 🌍 3.5k seen
#0383 📷 10Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
🇳🇱 Langbektuimelaar
Tursiops aduncus
NT 🌍 3.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1664971. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
