🐬Dusky dolphin
Der Schwarzdelfin (Aethalodelphis obscurus) ist ein sehr geselliger und verspielter Delfin, der in den Küstengewässern der südlichen Hemisphäre vorkommt. Erstmals beschrieb ihn der britische Walforscher John Edward Gray. Genetischen Analysen zufolge ist er sehr nah verwandt mit dem nordpazifischen Weißstreifendelfin (Aethalodelphis obliquidens), über seinen Status als selbständige Art sind sich die Wissenschaftler jedoch einig. Der Artzusatz im wissenschaftlichen Namen ist das lateinische Wort obscurus (dunkel/dämmrig).
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IUCN Red List assessment.
- Body mass
- 80 kg
- Body length
- 2.02 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 36 years
Everything we know about the Dusky dolphin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass80 kgrecord 80 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length2.02 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 2.1 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan36 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length14 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity6.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation350 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l80 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Dusky dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyDelphinidae
- ›genusLagenorhynchus
- ›speciesLagenorhynchus obscurus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyDelphinidae
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyDelphinidae
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