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Dolphin scientific name?
The scientific name for a dolphin depends on the species of dolphin. The common bottlenose dolphin is the Tursiops truncatus, and the Indo-Pacific dolphin is the Tursiops aduncus.
What is the scientific name for a pink dolphin?
A Pink (river) dolphin is another name for the Boto, or Amazon River dolphin. Its scientific name is Inia geoffrensis.
What is the scientific name for a rissos dolphin?
The scientific name is Grampus griseus.
What is the scientific name for a bottlenose dolphin?
Tursiops truncatus is the scientific name for a bottlenose dolphin.
What is the scientific name for the irrawaddy dolphin?
The scientific name for the Irrawaddy dolphin is Orcaella brevirostris.
What is the maori name for the hector dolphin?
Tutumairekurai is the most common of the Maori names for Hector's dolphin
Hector's dolphin maori name?
The Māori name for the Hector's dolphin is "tūpoupou."
What year was the Hector dolphin discovered?
Hector's dolphin was discovered sometime prior to the year 1881 by James Hector, a Scottish geologist, surgeon, and naturalist. The dolphin was officially named in 1881 by a Belgian zoologist by the name of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden.
Is the little Hector dolphin endangered?
yes, sadly the hector's dolphin is endangered. :`(
What is the niche of a hector's dolphin?
The Hector's Dolphin only lives in New Zealand!
What is the smallest dolphin?
The Hector's dolphin (named are Sir James Hector) is New Zealand's smallest dolphin. It is the only dolphin endemic to New Zealand. it is also one of the world's smallest dolphins, growing to about 1.2 metres in length.
How are the Hector dolphin getting killed?
by a net
How do you say dolphin in maori?
Papahu means dolphin or porpoise (a transliteration of the English 'porpoise'). Terehu is the Maori name for the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Tupoupou is the Maori name for the Hector's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori). Maki is the Maori name for the Orca or Killer Whale (Orcinus orca). Aihe is the Maori name for the Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis).
Which species of dolphin live in new zealand coastal warters?
Maui/Hector's Dolphin
What are the name of the dolphins that live in New Zealand waters?
Dusky Dolphins, Hector's Dolphins, Maui's Dolphins, Bottlenose Dolphins, Common Dolphin, Pantropical Spotted Dolphin.
How long does the hector dolphin live?
Male Hector's dolphins live for an average of 25 years and females an average of 45 years in the wild. The record age was an 87 year old female Hector's dolphin.
Is anything being done to protect hector dolphin?
o. They are going to kill the dolphin and then eat it.
