This page contains links to all species of dolphins river dolphins and porpoises.  Please click the link to take you to the dolphin page where you will find more dolphin pictures and information on that dolphin species.

More information can be found at Swimming with Dolphins

            Dolphins without Beaks     Porpoises    Scientific names and families    River Dolphins

	Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin
	Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
	Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
	Black Dolphin
	Bottlenose Dolphin
	Commerson’s Dolphin
	Common Dolphin
	Dusky Dolphin
	Frasier’s Dolphin
	Heaviside’s Dolphin
	Hector’s Dolphin
	Hourglass Dolphin
	Indo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin
	Irrawaddy Dolphin
	Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin
	Northern Rightwhale Dolphin
	Pacific White-sided Dolphin
	Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
	Peale’s Dolphin
	Risso’s Dolphin
	Rough-toothed Dolphin
	Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin
	Southern Rightwhale Dolphin
	Striped Dolphin
	Tucuzi Dolphin
	White Beaked Dolphin
	Baiji (Yangtze River Dolphin)
	Boto (Amazon River) Dolphin
	Franciscana (La Plata) Dolphin
	Indus and Ganges River Dolphin

 

Dolphins without Prominent Beaks

• Tucuxi Commersons Dolphin
• Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin
• Hector’s Dolphin
• Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin
• Heaviside’s Dolphin
• Atlantic Hump-backed
• Black Dolphin
• Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
• Spotted Dolphin
• Hourglass Dolphin
• Pantropica Dolphin
• Dusky Dolphin
• Southern Rightwhale Dolphin
• Peale’s Dolphin
• Common Dolphin
• White-Beaked Dolphin
• Striped Dolphin
• Pacific White-sided Dolphin
• Rough-toothed Dolphin
• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
• Indo-pacific Hump-backed Dolphin
• Fraser’s Dolphin
• Northern Rightwhale Dolphin
• Irrawaddy Dolphin
• Bottlenose Dolphin
• Risso’s Dolphin

River Dolphins

Porpoises

• Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
• Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
• Finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
• Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
• Spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
• Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)

Types (Species) of Dolphins

Family Phocoenidae	Phocoena phocoena	harbour porpoise
	Phocoena spinipinnis	Burmeister’s porpoise
	Phocoena sinus	vaquita
	Phocoena dioptrica	spectacled porpoise
	Neophocaena phocaenoides	finless porpoise
	Phocoenoides dalli	Dall’s porpoise
Family Delphinidae	Steno bredanensis	rough-toothed dolphin
	Sousa chinensis	Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
	Sousa teuszii	Atlantic humpback dolphin
	Sotalia fluviatilis	tucuxi
	Lagenorhynchus albirostris	white-beaked dolphin
	Lagenorhynchus acutus	Atlantic white-sided dolphin
	Lagenorhynchus obscurus	dusky dolphin
	Lagenorhynchus obliquidens	Pacific white-sided dolphin
	Lagenorhynchus cruciger	hourglass dolphin
	Lagenorhynchus australis	Peale’s dolphin
	Grampus griseus	Risso’s dolphin
	Tursiops truncatus	Common bottlenose dolphin
	Tursiops aduncus	Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
	Stenella frontalis	Atlantic spotted dolphin
	Stenella attenuata	pantropical spotted dolphin
	Stenella longirostris	spinner dolphin
	Stenella clymene	clymene dolphin
	Stenella coeruleoalba	striped dolphin
	Delphinus delphis	common dolphin
	Delphinus capensis	long-beaked common dolphin
	Lagenodelphis hosei	Fraser’s dolphin
	Lissodelphis borealis	northern right whale dolphin
	Lissodelphis peronii	southern right whale dolphin
	Cephalorhynchus commersonii	Commerson’s dolphin
	Cephalorhynchus eutropia	Chilean dolphin
	Cephalorhynchus heavisidii	Heaviside’s dolphin
	Cephalorhynchus hectori	Hector’s dolphin
	Peponocephala electra	melon-headed whale
	Feresa attenuata	pygmy killer whale
	Pseudorca crassidens	false killer whale
	Orcinus orca	killer whale
	Globicephala melas	long-finned pilot whale
	Globicephala macrorhynchus	short-finned pilot whale
	Orcaella brevirostris	Irrawaddy dolphin
Family Platanistidae	Platanista gangetica gangetica	South Asian river dolphin
Family Pontoporiidae	Pontoporia blainvillei	franciscana
Family Lipotidae	Lipotes vexillifer	baiji
Family Iniidae	Inia geoffrensis	boto