common dolphin

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Related to Delphinus capensis: Delphinus delphis, Arabian 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;
Delphinus delphis
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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Abstract.--Blubber progesterone levels were measured in biopsy samples and used to predict the pregnancy status of 507 female common dolphins (204 long-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus capensis, and 303 short-beaked common dolphins, D.
From progesterone in biopsies to estimates of pregnancy rates: large scale reproductive patterns of two sympatric species of common dolphin, Delphinus spp. off California, USA and Baja, Mexico
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The survey, conducted by the Kagoshima Aquarium using aircraft and ships in January and November last year, confirmed 476 Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) and long-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus capensis), aquarium officials said.
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Sets of photos of long- beaked common dolphins (Delphinus capensis) obtained opportunistically in the Santa Barbara Channel, San Pedro Channel, and Santa Monica Bay are analyzed and used to compare prevalence of X.
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Four cetacean species are newly reported hosts for Xenobalanus: Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni), long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis), humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), and spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
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