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Delphinus delphis, common dolphin
black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water;
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bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin
any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
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porpoise
any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
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Grampus griseus, grampus
slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
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Orcinus orca, grampus, killer, killer whale, orca, sea wolf
predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
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Globicephala melaena, black whale, blackfish, common blackfish, pilot whale
small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
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river dolphin
any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia
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Delphinapterus leucas, beluga, white whale
small northern whale that is white when adult
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Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform
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Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops gilli
a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean
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Phocoena phocoena, harbor porpoise, herring hog
the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific
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Phocoena sinus, vaquita
a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species
