Delphinus
common dolphins
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).
The common dolphin is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with an estimated global population of about six million. It is currently the only member of the genus Delphinus, the type genus of the subfamily Delphininae.W CalCOFI holds 1,357 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 1,357
- observations
- 1,357
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- 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 · 2 taxa
- sp Delphinus delphis Short-Beaked Common Dolphin1,255
- sp Delphinus capensis Long-beaked Common Dolphin102
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137015")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:137015'").df()