The Atlantic spotted dolphin is a dolphin found in warm temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Older members of the species have a very distinctive spotted coloration all over their bodies.
Stenella frontalis, La Gomera
Near South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands
A juvenile swimming in the blue water
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae, Platanistidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae, and possibly extinct Lipotidae. There are 40 extant species named as dolphins.
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
The face of a common bottlenose dolphin
A pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea
Dolphins surfing at Snapper Rocks, Queensland, Australia