#0064 · 🦊 mammals

Long-finned Pilot Whale

🇳🇱 Griend ·Globicephala melas

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
2. © giuliaa33 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Quentin Betencourt · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © pgkaestner · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Heather and Andrew Hodgson · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Dirk Klaus · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © Barney Moss · CC BY 4.0
8. © jpgalvan · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The long-finned pilot whale ( Globicephala melas ) is a large species of oceanic dolphin. It shares the genus Globicephala with the short-finned pilot whale ( Globicephala macrorhynchus ). Long-finned pilot whales are known as such because of their unusually long pectoral fins.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,292iNaturalist 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).