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Flora and Fauna of North Carolina

A guide to the species that call North Carolina home!

Bottlenose Dolphin 1
Tursiops truncatus
Striped Dolphin 2
Stenella coeruleoalba
Clymene Dolphin 3
Stenella clymene
Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin 3
Stenella attenuata
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 4
Stenella frontalis
Killer Whale 5
Orcinus orca
Common Dolphin 4
Delphinus delphis
Long-finned Pilot Whale 6
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Pygmy Killer Whale 3
Feresa attenuata
False Killer Whale 7
Pseudorca crassidens
Risso's Dolphin 4
Grampus griseus
Melon-headed Whale 8
Peponocephala electra
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Steno bredanensis

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  • 1. (c) Jörg Wendland, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 2. (c) Alfiero Brisotto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) WoRMS for SMEBD, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 4. (c) Christine Veeschkens, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 5. (c) Dina Dubrovskaya, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
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  • 8. (c) Thomas Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Thomas Brown

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