Common dolphin Common dolphin The common dolphin is the name given to two species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus. Taxonomists and cetologists usually recognise two species — the short-beaked common dolphin, which retains the systematic name "Delphinus delphis", and the long-beaked common dolphin "D. capensis". Despite its name, the common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination; that distinction belongs to the bottlenose dolphin (genus "Tursiops") due to its widespread use in marine parks and its appearance in the television series "Flipper". However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and
Delphinus to the coast of Greece and left. In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Delphinus are located within "the Black Tortoise of the North" (北方玄武, "Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ"). In Polynesia, two cultures recognized Delphinus as a constellation. In Pukapuka, it was called "Te Toloa" and in the Tuamotus, it was called "Te Uru-o-tiki". USS Delphinus (AF-24) and USS Delphinus (PHM-1), two United States Navy ships, are named after the constellation. A house at Sutton Girls is named Delphinus Delphinus Delphinus (Eng. U.S. ) Eng. oth: ) is a constellation in the northern sky, close to the celestial equator. Its name