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Wildlife of Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach is home to many non-aquatic, aquatic, and semi-aquatic species. Here is a guide to them all.

Common Bottlenose Dolphin 1
Tursiops truncatus
Striped Dolphin 2
Stenella coeruleoalba
Clymene Dolphin 3
Stenella clymene
Spinner Dolphin 4
Stenella longirostris
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin 5
Stenella attenuata
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 6
Stenella frontalis
Orca 7
Orcinus orca
Short-beaked Common Dolphin 8
Delphinus delphis
Long-finned Pilot Whale 9
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale 10
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Risso's Dolphin 11
Grampus griseus

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  • 1. (c) Joachim S. Müller, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
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