Derived from an old diminutive of MARTIN. MAXWELL Scottish. From a place name meaning Mack's stream, from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name MAGNUS, combined with Old English wella stream ...
For the ray-finned fish known as common dolphin, see Mahi-mahi. The common dolphin is the name given to two species (and possibly a third) of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus. Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomists only recognised one species in this genus, the common dolphin Delphinus delphis.
Dolphins are a highly intelligent group of marine mammals; they belong to the same taxonomic order as whales and porpoises. Some species of dolphin are endemic to the Atlantic Ocean -- they are found nowhere else on the planet -- while others have worldwide distributions. Species that occur exclusively in the ... Cats