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peponocephala electra

small blackfish
deep water usually
strand regularly in hi
large groups-300
less robust and more triangle head than pygmy killer
pointier flippers
melon-headed whale
steno bredanensis
no nose crease
slender
white pink lip scars
named for tooth ridges
occasional here offshore
usally tonga/vanuatu
rough toothed dolphin
tursiops truncatus
common
offshore more
robust
big and heavy
distinct nose crease
uniform gray
shorter beak
bottlenose dolphin
stenella longirostris longirostris
tri color
large pods
common
eat night relax and sleep and socialize day
can have freckles-spots
spinner dolphin
stenella coeruleoalba
streakers-away from boat
dark stripe eye
intricate
striped dolphin
stenella attenuata
leapers
common
more spots as older
dip in dark color in cape
bicolor
pantropical spotted dolphin
feresa attenuata
offshore oceanic
occasional
small blackfish
white belly patch
sometimes white lips
rounded pec fins at end
bulbous head
pods 6-8
dark shallow cape
pygmy killer whale
pseudorca crassidens

named for resemblance to killer whale skull
big blackfish
not as bulbois head as pilot
dorsal base less broad
endangered pop in hi
head dent
false killer whale
grampus griseus
means large grey whale
bulbous jead
rare
white grey brown
beakless
intense scarring
no upper teeth
very deep water
more common in cali
risso's dolphin
globicephala macrorhynchus

bigger blackfish
social
bulbous head
broad base dorsal fin
large strandings
worldwide not much genetic diversity
spy hop
short-finned pilot whale
kogia breviceps

false gill small mouth
small bent dorsal fin behind midbod
no upper jaw teeth
compacted anatomy
robust abdomen
pygmy sperm whale
kogia sima

false gill small mouth
sometimes upper teeth
shorter
larger pointy fin
rarely seen
dwarf sperm whale
megaptera novaeangliae
migratory
longest pec fins
ventral throat grooves
acrobatic displays and song
humpback whale
indopacetus pacificus
longman's beaked whale
ziphius cavirostris

shorter beak longer body. than bl
sometimes lots of cc shark bites
short pointed beak
2 teeth lower jaw beak tip mat males
diverse appearance
smiley mouth!
bulbous melon
cuvier's beaked whale
mesoplodon densirostris

longer beak shorter body than cuv
tooth on top midway
brown olive
tooth on top
extreme s shape mouth
blainville's beaked whale
physeter macrocephalus

wrinkly
no upper teeth
gray brown
largest odontocete
low dorsal hump w knuckles
sperm whale
orcinus orca

white patches
diff diet and culture between pops
very tall erect fin
gray saddle patch
killer whale
lagenodelphis hosei
very little cute beak
robust
large pods
offshore
rare
white beaked dolphin
fraser's dolphin
balanoptera edeni
brudus
migratory
some pops dont
brydes whale