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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Delphinidae

ocean dolphins

WoRMS 136980ITIS 180415key worms:136980
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180415 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucopleurus acutus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Delphinidae
Photo · Sergio Martínez · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea. Close to forty extant species are recognised.W CalCOFI holds 1,867 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 11 taxa under it.R

1,867
observations
1,867
records
1987–2020
years
1
datasets
10
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 9 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136980")