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Created 11/22/2013

Family Delphinidae

SOUTH ATLANTIC

Cephalorhynchus commersonii  

COMMERSON'S DOLPHIN

World's smallest cetacean attaining only 5 feet.  Has a distinctive white throat patch and black fins compared to Dall's Porpoise of the North Pacific.  Rare around the southern tip of South America and the Kerguelen Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerson%27s_dolphin