🐬Hector's dolphin
赫氏矮海豚（學名：Cephalorhynchus hectori） ，又名贺氏矮海豚，是侏海豚属下的一種海豚，其下兩個亞種全都生活在新西蘭。其中生活在南島附近的C. h. hectori數量最多，而瀕危的毛伊海豚（C. h. maui）則生活在北島附近海域。据2010/2011年數據顯示，後一亞種僅存55只成年個體。其种加詞來自威灵頓殖民博物館（今新西兰蒂帕帕国立博物馆）館長詹姆斯·赫科特（James Hector，1834–1907），他最早對這种海豚進行了研究，但正式的科學研究則始于比利時動物學家皮埃尔·约瑟夫·贝内登。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- 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
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 mass50 kgrecord 57 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 56 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length1.8 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan20 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length13 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity7.6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation335 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 335 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l50 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyDelphinidae
- ›genusCephalorhynchus
- ›speciesCephalorhynchus hectori
- 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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