Delphinidae
ocean dolphins
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180415 via WoRMS external link
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 1,963 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 12 taxa under it.R
- 1,963
- observations
- 1,963
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 10
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 9 taxa · Delphinus most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136980")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:136980'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 9 taxa · Delphinus most observed
- G Delphinus common dolphins1,447
- G Sagmatias197
- G Grampus156
- G Tursiops bottlenose dolphins78
- G Lissodelphis47
- G Orcinus21
- G Globicephala Pilot Whale9
- G Pseudorca4
- G Stenella4
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Odontoceti
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucopleurus acutus · source
- Photo · Sergio Martínez · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Oceanic dolphin” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374014680
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗