A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Delphinidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Commerson's DolphinCephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black DolphinCephalorhynchus eutropia (Gray, 1846) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hector's DolphinCephalorhynchus hectori (P.-J. van Bénéden, 1881) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-beaked Common DolphinDelphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pygmy Killer WhaleFeresa attenuata Gray, 1874 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-finned Pilot WhaleGlobicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-finned Pilot WhaleGlobicephala melas (Traill, 1809) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Risso's DolphinGrampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fraser's DolphinLagenodelphis hosei Fraser, 1956 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atlantic White-sided DolphinLagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-beaked DolphinLagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peale's DolphinLagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hourglass DolphinLagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pacific White-sided DolphinLagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky DolphinLagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Right Whale DolphinLissodelphis borealis (Peale, 1848) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern Right Whale DolphinLissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Irrawaddy DolphinOrcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian snubfin dolphinOrcaella heinsohni Beasley, Robertson & Arnold, 2005 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Orcinus ater (Cope in Scammon, 1869) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Killer WhaleOrcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| False Killer WhalePseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray DolphinSotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville, 1853) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese white dolphinSousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indian Ocean humpback dolphinSousa plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian humpback dolphinSousa sahulensis Jefferson & Rosenbaum, 2014 | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atlantic Humpback DolphinSousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pantropical Spotted DolphinStenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Striped DolphinStenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atlantic Spotted DolphinStenella frontalis (G. Cuvier, 1829) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rough-toothed DolphinSteno bredanensis (G. Cuvier in Lesson, 1828) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bottlenose DolphinTursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) | DelphinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.