LAGENORHYNCHUS OBLIQUIDENS - PACIFIC WHITE SIDED DOLPHIN
The Lagenorhynchus Obliquidens, better known as the pacific white sided dolphin is one of the many species of dolphins that can be found today. On the bottom you can see the position of Lagenorhynchus Obliquidens within each classification and the reasons why it's in that specific rank.
- DOMAIN: Eukarya - organism that contains cells with nucleus and a membrane-bound organelles.
- KINGDOM: Animalia - organism that ingests food, it is a multicellular organism with no cell walls.
- PHYLUM: Chordata - organism that contains pharyngeal slits - used as gills, a dorsal nerve cord, notochord and a post-anal tail.
- CLASS: Mammalia - organism that has presence of fur and mammary glands. Also has placenta where fetus feeds during gestation.
- SUBCLASS: Eutheria - organism whose young complete its embryonic development in the uterus.
- ORDER: Cetacea - order of marina animals, where the dolphin goes in with the whales and porpoises.
- FAMILY: Delphinidae - family of the organism that we are talking about, commonly know as dolphins.
- GENUS: Lagenorhynchus - organism with a bottle-nosed, 80 to 90 vertebrae, small teeth and short and broad snout.
- SPECIES: L. obliquedens - organism found in the very cold waters of the north pacific ocean.
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