All the species I've currently covered on this site, listed. Scientific names are listed first when available.
Delphinus coronatus - Crowned Dolphin
Delphinus rhinoceros - Rhinoceros Dolphin
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In the pipes
This is a list of all the species I've got lined up for blog posts but either havn't illustrated or written yet. The links lead to the sources I'm referencing.
Alugninich, 1838 - Based on descriptions from indigenous people inhabiting the Aluet and Kodiak islands, as well as their art. The entry almost seems to describe a Cuvier's Beaked Whale apart from the fact that its two teeth are described as 9 inches long. It is compared to Sperm Whales, Narwhal and Hyperoodon.
Bayer's Dolphin, 1726/1838 - 42 feet long, lives in the Mediterranean. A cetacean described as resembling a Sperm Whale, but whose snout was "very long, obtusely pointed, a little raised, and of the same shape as that of the common dolphin", a description that aligns strikingly with modern depictions of extinct raptorial Sperm Whales. Other features include a triangular dorsal fin and countershading.
Antarctic Long-Finned Whale - an identity that has been applied to a variety of vaguely described whales, among them a grampus-like cetacean spotted off the coast of Chile in 1964. I've taken the liberty of giving this 1964 whale the name Clarke's Dolphin for the sake of identifying it.
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