What is the smallest species of dolphins?

Answer 1

I think the spinner dolphin is the smallest

Answer 2

What is the smallest dolphin species?

There is not really one smallest species. The smallest species include:

True dolphins (Delphinidae):

Tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) - 1.3 to 1.8 m

Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) - 1.2 to 1.5 m

Black dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia) - 1.2 to 1.7 m

Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) - 1.3 to 1.7 m

River dolphins (Platanistidae):

Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) - 1.3 to 1.7 m

Porpoises (Phocoenidae):

Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) - 1.2 to 1.5 m

Finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) - 1.2 to 1.9 m

http://stason.org/TULARC/animals/dolphin...

Answer 3

The Maui dolphin which is not from Hawaii but lives off the coast of New Zealand. It's almost as long as me though!

Answer 4

Hmm... one of the dolphins in the Genus: Cephalorhynchus

Most sites say Maui's dolphin.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t...

smallest—Heaviside’s dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii is 3.5 feet (1.2 meters) long

http://www.wwf.org.nz/dolphin/about.htm

Numbering around 110, the Maui's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) is the world's smallest and rarest marine dolphin.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcove...

Maui’s Dolphin

Maui’s dolphin is the world’s smallest dolphin and is found only on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand and nowhere else in the world. With less than 150 left in the wild, it is New Zealand's rarest dolphin.

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/h...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui%27s_do...

Maui's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) are known to be the world's smallest dolphin. They are a sub-species of the Hector's dolphin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalorhyn...