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Panglobal Common Dolphin
Delphinus delphis (Panglobal Common Dolphin · マイルカ)
🇰🇷 Marine Protected Species (Korea)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its average weight of about 77 kg is similar to the weight of an adult human (Comparison).
- 💡 Its maximum body length of about 2.4 m is about 1.4 times the height of a 1.7 m tall adult (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Panglobal Common Dolphin is an offshore dolphin of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that swims in large schools and rides bow waves.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its back is dark gray and its flanks have yellow and tan patches forming an hourglass pattern. It has a rounded forehead, a moderately long beak, a triangular central dorsal fin, and 40–57 teeth on each side of each jaw.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on schooling fish and squid that rise near the surface at night. Schools reach hundreds of individuals, riding the bow waves of boats and leaping out of the water.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
It is a species recorded in Korean waters and listed as 'Chamdol-gorae' (Korean name) on the National List of Species of Korea (National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR)).
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2025) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/134817215/286179278
- • 해양보호생물 — 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000053376 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000053376
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • Korean protection status: Marine Protected Species (Korea)
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1006411
- • iucnredlist.org — 286179278
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000053376 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000053376
- • wikidata.org — Q207114
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Delphinus delphis 326708883.jpg
- • fisheries.noaa.gov — short-beaked-common-dolphin
- • animaldiversity.org — Delphinus delphis
- • species.nibr.go.kr — general-search
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — author not recorded · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Mesoplodon bidens)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.