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SpeciesCetaceaDelphinidae
Marine mammals

🐬Hector's dolphin

Cephalorhynchus hectori (P.-J.van Bénéden, 1881)

Plískavice novozélandská (Cephalorhynchus hectori) je druh malého kytovce z čeledi delfínovití a rodu Cephalorhynchus. Jedná se o jediného kytovce endemického Novému Zélandu. S délkou těla do 1,5 m se jedná o nejmenšího kytovce na světě.

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Also called
Hector’s Dolphin, New Zealand Dolphin, New Zealand White-front Dolphin, White-headed Dolphin
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
50 kg
Body length
1.8 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hector's dolphin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
50 kgrecord 57 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 56 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
1.8 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Generation length
13 years
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Age at maturity
7.6 years
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Gestation
335 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 335 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Volume l
50 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Hector's dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
fish80%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
Hector-Delfin (de), Cephalorhynchus hectori (es), Dauphin d'Hector (fr), Cephalorhynchus hectori (uk), Tonin nowozelandzki (pl), 헥토르돌고래 (ko) … and 22 more languages
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