Spinner dowphin
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The spinner dowphin (Stenella longirostris) is a smaa dowphin foond in aff-shore tropical watters aroond the warld. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it spins alang its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a member o the faimily Delphinidae o tuithed whales.
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Spinner dowphin[1] | |
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A spinner dowphin in the Reid Sea | |
Size compared tae an average human | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Subcless: | Eutheria |
Order: | Cetacea |
Suborder: | Odontoceti |
Faimily: | Delphinidae |
Genus: | Stenella |
Species: | S. longirostris |
Binomial name | |
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) | |
Spinner Dowphin range |
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