Pacific White-sided Dolphin

Sagmatias obliquidens

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Delphinidae

The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Aethalodelphis obliquidens), also known as the hookfin porpoise, is an active dolphin found in the cool or temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The Pacific white-sided dolphin was named by Smithsonian mammalogist Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865. It is morphologically similar to the dusky dolphin, which is found in the South Pacific.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

CanadaMexicoUnited States of America

Sources and credits

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Pacific White-sided Dolphin

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