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Flora and Fauna of North Carolina

A guide to the species that call North Carolina home!

Long-finned Pilot Whale 1
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Pygmy Killer Whale 2
Feresa attenuata
False Killer Whale 3
Pseudorca crassidens
Risso's Dolphin 4
Grampus griseus
Melon-headed Whale 5
Peponocephala electra
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Steno bredanensis

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