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Grampus griseus

Risso's Dolphin

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137098ITIS 180457key worms:137098
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180457 via WoRMS external link

calcofi:marine_mammals

Risso's dolphin is the only species of the genus Grampus in the family Delphinidae (dolphins). Some of the most closely related species to these dolphins include: pilot whales, pygmy killer whales, melon-headed whales, and false killer whales.W CalCOFI holds 156 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R

156
observations
156
records
156
sampling events
1987–2020
years
1
datasets
3.8 m
max length
Grampus griseus
Photo · National Marine Mammal Laboratory, no individual author credit given · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:137098%22

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 3.8 m max
Risso's Dolphin3.8 m
a person1.7 m

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Grampus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Grampus griseus · source
  • Photo · National Marine Mammal Laboratory, no individual author credit given · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Risso's dolphin” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371085665
  • Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗