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What’s the difference between fins and flippers?
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What are cetaceans?
Cetaceans is a collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises.
What is a dolphin fish?
Dolphins are marine mammals, but there is also a fish species that's often called "dolphin" or "dolphin fish". Its scientific name is Coryphaena hippurus. To avoid confusion with the mammal species its Spanish name "dorado" or its Hawaiian name "mahi mahi" is often used. Because of the confusion between the mammal and the fish species dolphins have in the past erroneously been called porpoises, especially in some US regions, where the fish species is common. In older books you can encounter the name "bottlenose porpoise" for the bottlenose dolphin, for instance.
What is the smallest dolphin species?
There is not really one smallest species.
What is the largest dolphin?
The killer whale (Orcinus orca). Male killer whales can grow up to 9.6 m (31.5 ft).
How many species of dolphins are there?
The taxonomy of whales and dolphins is still subject to change. But in the most common view, the family of dolphins (Delphinidae) consists of 32 different species. Closely related families (the white whales (Monodontidae) and river dolphins (Platanistidae) have 2 resp.
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