🐬Dusky dolphin
Тёмный дельфин, или тусклый дельфин, или вертящийся дельфин (лат. Aethalodelphis obscurus), — вид дельфинов, встречающийся в прибрежных водах Южного полушария.
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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
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
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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