#0051 · 🦊 mammals

Common Dolphin

🇳🇱 Gewone Dolfijn ·Delphinus delphis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Claudia Komesu · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Corey Husic · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Alexis · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Jorge Herreros de Lartundo · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The short-beaked common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ) is a species of common dolphin. It has a larger range than the long-beaked common dolphin ( D. capensis ), occurring throughout warm-temperate and tropical oceans, including the Indian Ocean although in smaller quantities than other places they are found. There are more short-beaked common dolphins than any other dolphin species in the warm-temperate portions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is also found in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The...

base stats

NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,767iNaturalist 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).