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common dolphin
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Noun1.common dolphin - black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the watercommon dolphin - black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water;
dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
genus Delphinus, Delphinus - type genus of the Delphinidae


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Species group Subgroup Common name Scientific names) Delphinids Small delphinids Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis Long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis Unclassified common dolphin Delphinus spp.
The last five years in particular, have shown a dramatic increase, mainly due to winter strandings of short-beaked common dolphins and harbour porpoises in southwest England.
For example, recent DNA studies of what was thought to be a single species, the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), revealed the existence of two species, now known as the short-beaked common dolphin (D.
 
 
 
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