Spinner dowphin
| Spinner dowphin[1] | |
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| A spinner dowphin in the Reid Sea | |
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| Size compared tae an average human | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Subcless: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Faimily: | Delphinidae |
| Genus: | Stenella |
| Species: | S. longirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) | |
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| Spinner Dowphin range | |
The spinner dowphin (Stenella longirostris) is a smaa dowphin foond in aff-shore tropical watters aroond the warld. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it spins alang its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a member o the faimily Delphinidae o tuithed whales.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L., Jr. (2005). "Order Cetacea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 723–743. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Hammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K., Karczmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y., Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B. (2008). "Stenella longirostris". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 7 October 2008. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
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