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Species
Least ConcernClymene dolphin
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetartiodactyla
- FamilyDelphinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations31
via IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
The Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene), in older texts known as the short-snouted spinner dolphin, is a dolphin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only confirmed case of hybrid speciation in marine mammals, descending from the spinner dolphin and the striped dolphin.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clymene dolphin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.