Concept information
Preferred term
Dolphins
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Amazon Dolphins
- Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin
- Atlantic White Sided Dolphins
- Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins
- Chinese River Dolphin
- Dolphin, Fraser's
- Fraser Dolphin
- Fraser's Dolphin
- Frasers Dolphin
- Ganges Dolphin
- Irrawaddy River Dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus
- Langenorhynchus obliquiden
- Langenorhynchus obliquidens
- La Plata Dolphin
- Ocean Dolphin
- Ocean Dolphins
- Pacific White-Sided Dolphin
- Pacific White Sided Dolphins
- Pacific White-Sided Dolphins
- Piebald Dolphin
- Piebald Dolphins
- Right Whale Dolphin
- Right Whale Dolphins
- Risso Dolphin
- Risso's Dolphin
- Rissos Dolphin
- Rough Toothed Dolphin
- Rough-Toothed Dolphin
- Rough-Toothed Dolphins
- Sousa
- Susus
- Tucuxi Dolphin
- Tucuxi Dolphins
- Whale, False Killer
- Whale, Melon-Headed
- Whale, Pygmy Killer
- White-Beaked Dolphin
- White Beaked Dolphins
- White-Beaked Dolphins
Note
- do not confuse with DOLPHIN FISH see PERCIFORMES; note "whale" entry terms: these are common misnomers and are taxonomically DOLPHINS not WHALES
Scope note
- Mammals of the families Delphinidae (ocean dolphins), Iniidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae, and Platanistidae (all river dolphins). Among the most well-known species are the BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN and the KILLER WHALE (a dolphin). The common name dolphin is applied to small cetaceans having a beaklike snout and a slender, streamlined body, whereas PORPOISES are small cetaceans with a blunt snout and rather stocky body. (From Walker's Mammals of the World, 5th ed, pp978-9)
History note
- 1968
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004289
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