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Are all dolphins the same species?

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In the United States dolphins are often mistakenly called porpoises, a name correctly applied to small, blunt-nosed whales of another family. The best known species are the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), of worldwide distribution, and the bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), found in coastal waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The bottlenose has been particularly intensively studied; it is presumed that much of what is known about this species applies to other dolphins and even to the large whales.

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