spotted dolphin

English

Etymology

From spotted + dolphin.

Noun

spotted dolphin (plural spotted dolphins)

1. Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:

     Spotted dolphins perform ‘genital buzzing’, in which an adult directs a rapid stream of low-pitched clicks at the genital area of another, usually a calf.

   1. Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
   2. pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)

References

• spotted dolphin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stenella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Stenella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons