What are the names kinds of dolphins?

Answer 1

It may be hard to believe but there are approximately 36 different species of dolphins. There are 32 marine dolphins which live in oceans and salt water habitats and there are 4 river dolphins. If you add in the 6 porpoise species then there are 42 species. Some species of dolphins are bottlenose, white beaked, black, dusky, and Atlantic white-sided.

Answer 2

2 species of river are critically endangered the baiji has been listed as extinct very recently because none have been found for many years. The other river dolphin the Indus river dolphin is also in decline.

The Vaquita porpoise of Chile is also very endangered.

Answer 3

Here is a nice long list of the different dolphin species.

Commerson's Dolphin, Cephalorhyncus commersonii

Chilean Dolphin, Cephalorhyncus eutropia

Heaviside's Dolphin, Cephalorhyncus heavisidii

Hector's Dolphin, Cephalorhyncus hectori

Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus capensis

Short-beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis

Arabian Common Dolphin, Delphinus tropicalis

Pygmy Killer Whale, Feresa attenuata

Short-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhyncus

Long-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas

Risso's Dolphin, Grampus griseus

Fraser's Dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei

Atlantic White-sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus

White-beaked Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris

Peale's Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis

Hourglass Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger

Pacific White-sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens

Dusky Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus

Northern Right Whale Dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis

Southern Right Whale Dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii

Irrawaddy Dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris

Australian Snubfin Dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni - 2005 discovery

Answer 4

Some dolphin species are more endangered than others. The endangered species include the Maui's dolphin, Hector's dolphin, Ganges and Indus river dolphin, the Baiji, and the Vaquita.

Answer 5

Most of them TBH. The river dolphins are critically endangered- the Chinese River Dolphin is now extinct!