How many species of dolphins are there?

Ingold

There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin Aug 06 07, 7:51 AM

supersal1

I counted 41 here http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGIC_enGB219GB219&q=species+of+dolphin&btnG=Search&meta= and 42 here: http://www.dolphinear.com/data/dolphin_species.htm Aug 06 07, 7:52 AM

zbeckabee

There are 33 different types (though the site only lists 32) of marine dolphins, 4 types of river dolphins and 6 types of porpoises. Some you would never think were part of the dolphin family like the "Killer Whale or Orca". Marine -- White Beaked Dolphin Short Finned Pilot Whale Risso's Dolphin Pantropical Dolphin Long-Finned Pilot Whale Orcas (Killer Whale) Hourglass Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin False Killer Whale Commerson's Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Striped Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Pygmy Killer Whale Melon-Headed Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Frasier's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Black Dolphin Southern Right-Whale Dolphin Rough Toothed Dolphin Short Beaked Common Dolphin Pacific White-Sided Dolphin Northern Right-Whale Dolphin Long-Snouted Spinner Dolphin Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Indo-Pacific Hump-Back Atlantic White Sided Dolphin Atlantic Hump-Backed Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin River -- Baiji, or Yangtze river Dolphin Boto, or Amazon River Dolphin Franciscana or La plata Dolphin Indus & Ganges River Dolphin Porpoises -- Burmeister's Porpoise Dall's Porpoise Finless Porpoise Harbor Porpoise Spectacled Porpoise Vaquita Porpoise http://www.everythingdolphins.com/SpeciesPG.htm Aug 06 07, 9:38 AM

MonkeyOnALeash

And of course the so misunderstood good-eating Dolphin of South Florida....... http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/dolphin.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi_mahi NOT a "Dolphin". Aug 06 07, 12:32 PM