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Rough Toothed Dolphin

Rough-toothed Dolphin

(Stem rostratus)

Few naturalists ever have had the opportunity of examining the Rough-toothed Dolphin in the flesh, and information is based largely on skeletons . It is found in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas and the Gulf of Mexico, and it ranges in the Atlantic Ocean from the North Sea to South Africa.
In the Pacific Ocean this whale has been recorded from places as far apart as Japan, Hawaii, and New Zealand. It has been identified also at Java in the Indian Ocean, the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and in the Red Sea.
The Rough-toothed Dolphin is readily recognized by its slender beak, which is compressed from side to side and not flattened above. The beak is not distinctly marked off by a cross groove from the receding forehead. Unlike other dolphins, the crowns of the 20 to 27 teeth on each side in each jaw are not smooth, but are roughened by fine vertical wrinkles. So far as known, this dolphin never exceeds seven or eight feet in length.

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