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.
When a dolphin is refe â¦ rred to as a Bottlenose Dolphin, than that dolphin is of the Tursiops Truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin) or Tursiops Aduncus (Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin).   its named that because its snout is bottle-shaped Because their nose is shaped liked a bottle.