Animal scientific names
- Fish scientific name
- Bird scientific name
- Snake scientific name
- Dolphin scientific name
- Shark scientific name
- Whale scientific name
- Crab scientific name
- Butterfly scientific name
- Spider scientific name
Scientific names
As an example of a scientific name in action, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens. In this example of a scientific name, the genus name is Homo and the species is sapiens. These terms are unique and no other species can have this same name. Scientific names are designed to tell you something about an animal's relationships with other animals.
Dolphin Scientific Names
- Steno bredanensis, Rough-toothed dolphin
- Sousa chinensis, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- Sousa teuszii, Atlantic humpback dolphin
- Sotalia fluviatilis, Tucuxi
- Lagenorhynchus albirostris, White-beaked dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus acutus, Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus obscurus, Dusky dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus cruciger, Hourglass dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus australis, Peale’s dolphin
- Grampus griseus, Risso’s dolphin
- Tursiops truncatus, Common bottlenose dolphin
- Tursiops aduncus, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
- Stenella frontalis, Atlantic spotted dolphin
- Stenella attenuata, Pantropical spotted dolphin
- Stenella longirostris, Spinner dolphin
- Stenella clymene, Clymene dolphin
- Stenella coeruleoalba, Striped dolphin
- Delphinus delphis, Common dolphin
- Delphinus capensis, Long-beaked common dolphin
- Lagenodelphis hosei, Fraser’s dolphin
- Lissodelphis borealis, Northern right whale dolphin
- Lissodelphis peronii, Southern right whale dolphin
- Cephalorhynchus commersonii, Commerson’s dolphin
- Cephalorhynchus eutropia, Chilean dolphin
- Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, Heaviside’s dolphin
- Cephalorhynchus hectori, Hector’s dolphin